The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale eBook

Laura Lee Hope
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 165 pages of information about The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale.

The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale eBook

Laura Lee Hope
This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 165 pages of information about The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale.

“Oh,” suddenly cried Grace, a moment later, “I forgot something!”

“You mean you left it at my aunt’s house?” asked Betty, coming to a stop in the road.

“No, I forgot to get some of those lovely chocolates that new drug store sells.  They were delicious.  For a country town I never ate better.”

“Grace, you are hopeless!” sighed Betty.  “Come along, girls, do, or she’ll insist on going back for them.  And we must get to Middleville on time.  It won’t do to fall back in our schedule any more.”

“I sent a postal to my cousin from your aunt’s house,” said Amy, at whose relatives the girls were to spend the night.  “I told her we surely would be there.”

“And so we will,” said Betty.  “Gracious, I forgot to mail this card to Nettie French,” and she produced a souvenir card from her pocket.

“Never mind, you can put it in the next post-office we come to,” suggested Grace.  “Oh, dear!  I’m so provoked about those chocolates.  I’m positively famished, and I don’t suppose it is anywhere near lunch time?” and she looked at her watch.  “No, only ten o’clock,” and she sighed.

Laughing at her, the girls stepped on.  For a time the road ran along a pleasant little river, on which a number of canoes and boats could be seen.

“Oh, for a good row!” exclaimed Mollie.

“We’ll have plenty of chances this summer,” said Betty.  “It has hardly begun.”

“I wonder where we will spend our vacation?” spoke Mollie.

“We’ll talk about that later,” said Betty.  “I hope we can be together, and somewhere near the water.”

“If we only could get a motor boat!” sighed Grace.  “Oh, Bet, if no one claims that five hundred dollars maybe we can get a little launch with it, and camp at Rainbow Lake.”

“I’m only afraid some one will claim it,” spoke Betty.  “I dropped papa a card, telling him to send me a line in case a claimant did appear.”

“Oh, let’s sit down and rest,” proposed Mollie, a little later.  “There’s a perfect dream of a view from here and it’s so cool and shady.”

The others were agreeable, so they stopped beneath some big trees in a grassy spot near the bank of the little stream.  Grace took advantage of the stop to mend a pair of stockings she was carrying with her.  It was so comfortable that they remained nearly an hour and would have stayed longer only the Little Captain, with a look at her watch, decided that they must get under way again.

“Now it’s noon!” exclaimed Grace, when they had covered two miles after their rest.  “Mollie, open the lunch and let’s see what it contains.”

There was a startled cry from Mollie.  A clasping of her hands, a raising of her almost tragic eyes, and she exclaimed: 

“Oh, girls, forgive me!  I forgot the lunch!  I left it back there where we rested in the shade!”

CHAPTER XIV

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