Part 2 (2/2)
”I should say not!” cried Will ”Look there!” and he pointed to the open water that seely in contrast with the pure ice
”Oh--oh!” she gasped ”Was--was I skating toward that?”
”Right toward it!” exclai else than shove you to one side I hope I didn't hurt you”
”Oh, no, Will, it was good of you I--I didn't knohat I was doing I was thinking--thinking----”
She hesitated, and again tears ca for you--has anything happened?” he asked, eagerly
”Has anyone----”
”Oh, no, Will It is--nothing”
”Then let's go back to the others,” he proposed ”Theyanxious about you”
”No, Will, I'd rather not go back--just now I'll go on--home” Amy hesitated over the word ”I can take a short cut across the fields”
”Then let uessed at so that had occurred ”Come over to shore and I'll have them off in a jiffy Then I'll walk home with you”
”No, Will,” said Ao alone, really I would Just tell the girls----”
She hesitated again, and seeht--that I want to be alone They will understand”
”Very well” He skated with her to the bank, where she sat on a log
Then, with her skates dangling over her shoulder, Amy set off across the snow-covered fields alone--with bowed head--and into her eyes the tears caht of what she had heard
Will watched her, shook his head once or twice, as though puzzled, and then skated back toward his sister and the others
”Where's Aht
”Gone hoo with her?” asked Mollie, quickly
”She wouldn't let , looking down, and she ca into an air hole I had to al happen?”
”Yes, there did,” said Grace, promptly ”And the less said about it the better It was that horrid Alice Jallowremarks about Amy We won't take any notice of her after this Oh, how mean she is!”
Briefly, she told Will what had happened
”That accounts for it,” he said ”Poor Aht have been drowned”
”Don't say that!” cried Betty, sharply
”Why not, when it's the truth?”