"
"You talk as though you expected to meet him again," said Amy, looking at
her curiously.
"I do," answered Betty determinedly. "Some time we're going to find that
fellow and make him pay for what he's done. Think of it!" she added,
turning upon them suddenly while her eyes flashed fire. "To run down a
helpless old woman in the road and then not even stop to find out whether
you've killed her or not! We'll find him if we have to search the country
for fifty miles around!"
CHAPTER III
THE SHADOW OF MYSTERY
The girls never forgot that mad ride to Camp Liberty. Mile after mile sped
by on wings, and it was not till they were on the outskirts of the town
itself that the victim of the accident showed signs of returning
consciousness.
Then she sighed, moved her head a little restlessly on Betty's shoulder,
and opened her eyes.
"Oh, dear," she said, faintly but so abruptly that Betty and Grace
started. "I knew I'd have--to do it--some day!"
When the girls came to know her better they no longer wondered at her
quaint and unexpected sayings. But at the moment this queer statement,
coming as it did from one who they thought must be hovering at death's
door, rather startled them.
"Wh--what?" stammered Betty, bewildered, while the others stared with wide
eyes. "What did you say?"
"I said," replied the surprising old woman, in a stronger voice, trying
unsteadily to straighten herself in the seat and raising trembling hands
to her rather dilapidated old hat, "that I was sure to come to it some
day.
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