Naki picked up Mollie in his arms as though she had been a baby, and the party trudged on to their little log cabin.
At the top of the fateful ravine they found Miss Sallie. She could bear the suspense of waiting no longer and had climbed up alone.
“Home for sure!” proclaimed Naki briefly, as he deposited Mollie, still wrapped in Grace’s red sweater, on the couch before the fire in their cosy living room.
CHAPTER IX
SPIRIT OF THE FOREST
“It is perfectly incredible!” exclaimed Miss Sallie.
She and Bab were discussing Mollie’s adventure the next morning at breakfast.
“The more I try to reason out the whole thing, the more in the dark I am,” Bab answered.