Part 12 (2/2)
”That's just what I would like to find out,” replied the sister ”It seeirls to ask road directions or anything like that, when so ons, easier to halt than automobiles, had also passed by theasoline They use that in their torches”
”But why ask girls for it?” insisted Cora
”Because girls are supposed to be soft, and they ypsy!”
”Well, thatabout that old witch's threat She looked like three dead generations mummified Her eyes were like sword points”
”She must have been a beaut I should like to have met her witchshi+p
But, Cora dear, don't worry We boys are not going to run away again, and if we see the gypsies ill see them first and last”
”But there are bands of them all over the hills, and I have always heard that they have so each band of any important news in the colony Now, you see, Jack, the arrest of that man would be very important to them They are as loyal to each other as the royalty”
”Nevertheless it is a good thing the fellow is landed, and it was a blessing that he went for the cottage instead of to Miss Robbins'
bungalow _They_ had nohelp,” mused Jack
”I suppose it was,” answered Cora ”But I tell you, I do not want another such experience It was all right while I had to act, but when it was all over I had to----”
”React! That's the trouble What we do with nerve we must repeat without nerve Nohat do you think of your brother as a public lecturer?” and Jack laughed at his own attempt to explain the reaction that Cora really felt
”My, wasn't that a bright stroke of lightning?” exclai is struck!”
”That's right!”
”An explosion!”
A terrific report followed the flash Then cries and shrieks all over the hotel alarmed those ere not directly at the scene of the panic
”Oh, it's the kitchen! See the smoke!”
Jack and Cora rushed indoors, their first anxiety being to irls and boys of their party were safe
”Where is Bess?”
”Where is Belle?”
”Where are Walter and Ed?”
”Oh! where is Miss Robbins?”
Every one was looking for souests at the hotel were rushi+ng about shouting for friends and relatives, while smoke, black and heavy, poured up the stairs fro the first to get out and use the fire extinguishers There were plenty of these about the hotel, but on account of the injury to thein the kitchen at the tiuests in the hotel just then were girls and woone to the city, there really were not enough persons to cope with the fla