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Page 69
"Shall we take it in?" asked Elfreda.
"No; leave it where the child put it. But we'd better keep watch
on the place. It's queer to find a child's toy here, and while it
may mean little, it may mean much."
When the two girls returned to camp they found that Hi was just
back with the bear.
"Oh, girls! Hippy! Mr. Lang!" and the two in chorus fairly spilled
out the story of the face seen by Grace back of the waterfall and
the doll and their belief that the map was of the place on which
they now camped.
Hi Lang took the map and studied it intently.
"It surely is," he finally announced.
"What does the map mean?" questioned Anne.
"Oh, I guess there'd been rumors of gold or silver, and some one,
believing the stories, made a map, maybe by hearsay, maybe at
first hand. Maybe he talked too much, and some other fellow
knocked him on the head and took it."
"Don't you think there's anything in it?" inquired Emma Dean
disappointedly.
"Oh, maybe so, maybe not. Can't say."
After lunch Grace donned hip boots and went down toward the fall.
Seeing Elfreda there intent on the map, she announced:
"I'm going wading, Elfreda. Want to come?"
"Emphatically not. Do your boots leak?"
"I'll tell you in a moment," laughed Grace, stepping into the
water. "All right, so far," she called, wading toward the fall.
Grace thrust her bare arms through the sheet of water pouring from
above, groping for the rocks behind.
Sharp screams, at first loud and piercing, an instant later
muffled and seeming far away, brought Elfreda to her feet. Grace
was nowhere to be seen.
"Help! Grace has gone in!" shouted Elfreda, plunging into the cold
water.
CHAPTER XX
CONCLUSION
Hippy heard. Hi, farther away, heard. Both ran through the bushes.
Anne, Nora, and Emma sped to the stream.
Hippy and Elfreda were searching the bottom of the stream, which
was not more than three feet deep. Hi stopped them and asked
Elfreda to tell what she knew.
"Both hands were thrust through the fall like this," and Elfreda
thrust her own hands through the sheet of water. "I was looking at
the map when I heard her scream. Looking up, she had disappeared."
Lang nodded and plunged through the waterfall. Those on the
outside heard a shot, followed almost instantly by a second one.
At the sound Elfreda and Hippy plunged through the fall. Near the
base of the fall was no wall of rock behind the water. Instead, a
tunnel-like cave led into the mountain. Elfreda gasped and Hippy
looked in amazement. Grace lay on the floor of the cave and Hi
Lang had a man flown and was beating him, while a little girl was
trying to aid the man by striking Hi over the head and shoulders
with a stick.
Wingate snatched the stick from her. The child shrank back, and
Hi, realizing that he was going too far, ceased beating the man.
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