What's the use of talking
about it, anyway?"
"There is a good deal of use, I think," the girl answered softly. "If
you people hadn't been so good and kind to me, I would have----" she
paused before the word, and shivered again in her weakness.
"Don't think of it any more," Betty urged. "Now, what you most need is
rest. If we could get you back to our cottage or, perhaps, to your own
people----" she paused questioningly.
"Oh, please," said the girl, "if you could only get me back to the
hotel, you don't know how grateful I would be. Mother and dad will be
crazy."
"If we were only nearer our bungalow, we might take you back there and
then send word to your mother and father," said Mollie, thoughtfully.
"But I guess it is just about as far one way as the other."
"Yes, the best thing we can do," Mrs. Irving decided, "is to get her as
quickly as possible to the summer colony. That is where you come from,
isn't it?" she asked.
The girl nodded. All this time she had been standing, supported on
either hand by Roy and Will. But now Allen had a suggestion to make.
"We could make a seat," he said, "and carry her the rest of the distance
to the colony.
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