"There's a light!" exclaimed Grace.
"Yes; and it's at the auto!" added Amy. "Oh, girls----"
"Perhaps it is Mollie," suggested Mrs. Mackson. "Call to her."
"Mollie! Mollie!" Betty cried, shrilly, and the others joined in with a
school call.
"Oh, are you there?" came back the answering hail. "Oh, I am so glad."
"That's Mollie!" said Betty, in great relief. "We are united again," and
presently the girls were clasping the lost one in their arms, and, let
the truth be told--weeping over her for very joy.
"But of all things--to see you!" exclaimed Mollie, to Mr. Blackford, as
she fastened her auto lamp on the bracket.
"Yes, and I was surprised to find your friends. But how did you get
here?"
Mollie told how she had come to her senses, and had lighted the lamp she
had with her. Then, when she was about to escape through the barred
window she had heard the sound of a carriage approaching.
"That was mine," said Mr. Blackford.
"If I had known it I would not have been so frightened," remarked
Mollie. "As it was, I put out my lamp, and then, when no one came for
me, I decided to jump out. It was not far to the ground. Then I ran, and
at first did not know what to do. Then I decided to try and find my
auto. I must have blundered into the road, but I got here at last. I was
going to hide in the car, and I wanted to leave some sort of a light on
it so no one would run into it in the dark.
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