"But, really, this is the very first day I have been able to walk
any distance at all, so Con and I thought we'd take advantage of it."
"Well, we are mighty glad you did," said Roy heartily, and Mollie
glanced at him sideways. "I wonder if you two could help us solve a
riddle," he added. "We had just about given it up for a bad job when you
came along."
"What is it?" asked the girl eagerly. "I love riddles."
"Don't let him get your hopes raised," Betty warned. "It isn't a riddle
at all. The thing is, we found a cave yesterday, and to-day it has
simply vanished, disappeared, gone up in smoke."
"A cave?" said Conway, interestedly. "A cave around here? Why, I never
heard of any."
"Well, we are beginning to think that _we_ dreamed it," said Allen,
pessimistically. "The only strange thing about it is that we all should
dream the same thing."
"But please tell me what you mean," begged Anita. "Caves are even better
than riddles. Why did you say you dreamed it?"
There could be no escaping this emphatic young person--that they
realized--so Allen started to explain. When he had finished the two
visitors were almost, if not quite, as excited as the Outdoor Girls and
their boy chums had been.
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