“She’s fallen in! She’s fallen in!”
CHAPTER X
A SHOWER
The little “out of tune” feeling which had begun to manifest itself in the hearts of Ruth and Agnes was instantly dispelled as they heard the voice of Dot crying—for it was Dot they heard.
“What’s the matter?” demanded Nalbro, for she was so intent on finishing the telling of Hal’s fortune, holding his hand in her warm one, that she had not caught the alarm.
“Something has happened to Tess or Dot—maybe both,” gasped Ruth, as she sped past.
“One of them has fallen in the brook, probably,” added Agnes, for the waterfall was the result of a small brook toppling down an incline. It was not a wide stream; nor was it deep, except in a few places.
“Come on, Neale!” cried Luke, springing up from a hummock where he was lying under a tree, possibly thinking over the “fortune” that Nalbro had outlined for him. “To the rescue!”
“I don’t imagine it amounts to much. Those kids are always falling in or falling out or getting into some sort of trouble,” commented Neale. Nevertheless, he followed Luke, and now Nalbro and Hal joined in.
At intervals the cry came from Dot:
“She’s fallen in! She’s fallen in!”