“But have you heard what she did last week, girls?” asked the doctor’s daughter, earnestly.
“What now?” returned Bobby, with curiosity.
“Remember the day we found her broken down in that new car of her father’s on the Keyport road?”
“Sure!” cried several of the team together.
“That was the day of that big forest fire. You know, Chet warned her that the wind was likely to change and blow the fire across the road. Well, she rescued a man from the burning woods and then ran that car all over the hill country up there, warning farmers and other people that the fire was coming. She is a very brave girl,” concluded Nellie, softly.
“Pshaw! don’t you weep over Hess Grimes,” exclaimed Bobby. “You’re too tender-hearted, Nell.”
“But she is brave,” said Laura, hastily.
“And just as ill-tempered as she can be,” put in Jess Morse. “We’re well rid of her.”
“I guess nobody in this world is quite perfect—nor all bad, either,” suggested the doctor’s daughter. “And as for Hester, she never let us see her good points.”
“But some mighty mean ones!” exclaimed Dora Lockwood.