Part 34 (2/2)
Another pause The young woht have been interpreted, but the 'phone was silent to outsiders
”You don't erous trip in the mountains--yes, I hear, in the irl? I know you did not say foolish; I said that Leland, listen to o away again and not tellI have only just--yes, I know all about your ideas I a and worthy and all that, but----”
Dr Robbins tapped her foot impatiently Oh, the limits of the telephone! If only she could reach that brother!
”If you do not--report--look for you around Hemlock Bend! Yes, we'll do that Oh, Leland!”
She dropped the receiver and stood like one shocked physically as well as mentally For a moment she remained there, then turned back to the roo there
”What has happened?” he dee”
”Oh, there was, Mr Rand! What shall I do? That brother of ain!”
”Where?”
”He didn't even say His words were like those of some madman If we did not hear from him within three days, we are to look for him about Hemlock Bend”
”Where in the world is Hemlock Bend?”
”As if we knew! That is just like Leland Poor, dear Leland! Never practical enough even to send a straight e Oh, Mr Rand, that boy will kill us yet!”
”Don't you fear, little girl,” and there was an unmistakable note of tenderness in Mr Rand's voice ”One who eto do is to see if we can get hi for her answer, the gentle up that hotel As he happened to be one of the owners of the suet direct coone
Had just gone Had just caught a north-bound train--the express
”Can't get him there,” reported Mr Rand to Dr Robbins ”Now to find Hemlock Bend”
Guide books and time-tables were hastily consulted, but evidently the place was too small for printedman! Gone to soirl! And now he had actually gotten away!
Belle, Bess, Betty and Hazel had just returned from a melancholy ramble Belle was better--really better now than so up well under the strain--but all the young faces were very sad The boys had telephoned that they had soone away to investigate, but that was very ement The boys always had hope--over the 'phone Dr Robbins told them part of the story
”Oh, the idea!” exclaimed Belle ”Isn't that like a tale of the olden ti man to run away to rescue a lady! Nohat in the world is she being rescued from? Exactly That's the impossible Leland Never says who she is, what she is, or what about her Now, as if we could put a story like that together!” She sank back as if ether”
”But we must find Heer on every bend in the White Mountains”
”All concentrated on your particular person,” said Hazel, with a s smaller, Betty, have a more compact concentration”
”I think I have it,” exclaimed Mr Rand, as he returned with his hands full of pamphlets ”It is near--near----”
”Let me look, Daddy,” interrupted Betty ”I can see better, perhaps”