Part 17 (1/2)
”That's easy,” said Mollie ”One of us will get down underneath the --”
”Goodness, that lets et down in the dirt for fifty idiotic wagon drivers”
”Well, nobody's asking you to,” cried Mollie impatiently ”I fully intend to put on my overalls and do it lancing uneasily down the road ”Heany minute now and we don't want hi Mollie got into the begrile her small self beneath the car
”I hope he hurries,” she cried in a ht call coet off my foot,” as Grace wickedly stepped on her toes
”Just hear her,” cried Betty plaintively ”Everything just naturally gets blamed on me”
”Well, if you didn't, who did?” queried Mollie fiercely ”Tell ive hed while a satisfied chuckle cauilty one,” Mollie was beginning when Betty cut her short with a warning cry
”He's cohten the corners of her irls, this is a very solemn occasion!”
CHAPTER XIV
BLUFF POINT AT LAST
Very anxious the Outdoor Girls looked as the grouchy old far all sorts of noises under the car, apparently tinkering with itsfire of questions
”What is the matter, Mollie?”
”Can't you find the trouble?”
”Better let et started pretty soon, we'll not get to Bluff Point before dark”
These and other remarks like them met the suspicious ears of the driver as he jerked his team to a standstill
”Hey, what's the ht in the middle of the road? Can't you led out fro him
Her face was flushed froht well have been the flush of indignation
”If we could don't you suppose ould?” she queried, rather incoherently ”Do you think I'ht again The abruptness was caused by the terrible fear that if she stood looking at that sour old visage another
As for the other girls, they were slowly turning purple in an effort to e noise froh, didn't help them any, and they were relieved when their victiaze from them to the shallow ditch at the side of the road which was still ht before The only hope he had of getting around thelance in their direction, he whipped up his teairls had not foreseen, and they were of no ain
Grace and Anal to Betty, who stooped over Mollie's feet, the feet being all that could be seen of her, and cried with a peculiar inflection:
”I think you must have found the trouble by this time, Mollie, haven't you?”