Part 39 (1/2)
”I am sure I did,” declared Bess ”Oh, If only we find a cave, there are enough of us----”
”The young ladies should not venture too deep in the woods,” suggested Officer Brown ”We had best leave the o with you We are better in a crowd”
”Just as you say But look! Is not that a light?”
They were al the rope to the open
”Sing! Sing!” whispered Lena, at the door ”Mother Hull is listening”
Quickly Cora picked up the instru once ,” while Helka played her little harp
”Hark! Hark!” shrieked Bess ”That is Cora's voice! Listen!”
Spellbound they stood
”Yes,” shouted Belle ”That's Cora!”
”Oh, quick,” gasped Betty, ”she may stop, and then----”
A rustle in the bushes close by startled theroped his way out
”What do you want?” he demanded
”Oh, Leland!”
It was Miss Robbins who uttered the words She er, and while the others stood duer's arina? Here?”
”Yes, is this the Hemlock Bend? Oh, to think that we have found you!”
”But I o! That was her harp That was Lillian--somewhere in that thick woods!”
”And the voice was Cora's,” interrupted Jack ”Where can she be--to sing, and to sing like that?”
The detectives with Mr Rand were pressing on They soon eed from the thicket and saw the old mansion
”That is the Bradly place,” said Officer Brown ”Only an old woirls live there That is no place for one to be kidnapped”
”No , and that is Cora's song, 'The Gypsy's Warning'”
”And I heard Lillian play,” declared Dr Robbins' brother ”I have proht”