Stone earnestly.
"Oh-- yes-- of course," and Grace's voice was not quite so cold now.
She could readily understand that the accident could have happened in
just that way, and it was beginning to look so. Certainly, not knowing
the girls, the young man could have no object in deceiving them,
"A little child knocked down, you say!" exclaimed Mr. Kennedy. "I hope
it was not badly hurt. Who was it?"
"My----" began Mollie, and she was on the point of saying it was her
sister Dodo, when from the lake there sounded the cry of:
"Fire! Fire! Fire!"
Then came a sharp explosion. Everyone arose, and Mr. Kennedy exclaimed
excitedly:
"That must be an explosion on a motor boat. Come on, Harry. We may he
needed!"
They rushed through the bushes toward the place whence the alarm came,
the girls following as fast as they could.
"Don't let him know it was I, or that it was your sister who was
hurt!" Grace cautioned her chums. "I am going to write to papa, and he
can make an investigation. Their explanation sounds all right, but
they may have the papers after all. I'm going to write to-day."
"I would," advised Aunt Kate.
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