Part 35 (2/2)
To find Cora! to find Leland! or----
Another disappointment would seem too cruel Walter declared he could pick a trail they had never yet followed Betty said she knew a very dark and dangerous pass, where she had lost her bracelet Belle wanted to go by the river road, so that when it was actually left to Bess to decide, as she was next in authority to Cora in the Motor Girls' Club, she spoke for the way through the woods, straight up into a rough and shaggy pass
”They would never drea up there,” she declared, ”and if she is in hiding they have taken her far away froood roads”
Wonderful for Bess! Wonderful, indeed, is the instinct of love!
Scarcely had they turned into the wooded way than they espied sh the trees
”There must be some one over there,” declared Bess, the first to !”
”Oh, maybe they are those dreadful Gypsies,” murmured Belle ”Let us wait for Mr Rand and the others”
”I am too anxious to see,” objected her sister ”The rest are all within calling distance See, there are the boys Let us hurry into the side road Whoever they are, they have had wagons up here”
It required careful driving to cover the pass, for the roadas newly made, and by no means well-finished Great stones continually rolled out fro, rubber wheels, and Bess was on the alert to use the eh the road was somewhat up hill
She feared the ht back down
”See!” she exclaimed, ”there are children! They must be Gypsy lads and lassies”
Over in a clu at a caht be Gypsies
”Wait! wait,” called Jack and Ed, who had now observed that the place was inhabited ”We will go in first”
”All right,” called back Bess, a little sorry that she could not have had the glory of doing the investigating alone
By this ti party had reached the spot
”We will get out and walk over,” suggested Jack, his voice tre dusk, and the smoke seemed to make the woods more uncanny, and the depths blacker and more dismal
The children in the underbrush had cliet a view of the auto their way through the brush to reach the spot whence the s over froard of speech that ht,” answered Jack ”We'll take it carefully”
”It's a caer”
”Oh, I ahtened!” cried Belle ”Yet I would brave the Cora”
”Of course you would,” Betty assured her, as she picked herself up from a fall over some hidden root
Dr Robbins had secured a stout stick, and she