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"Indeed we shan't do anything of the sort, Dolly Ransom! We'll turn
around and go right straight back to Long Lake, that's what we'll do."
"I guess not. You don't think I've come this far and that I'm going to
turn around without seeing what the place is like, do you?"
"Why, Dolly, you know we weren't supposed to come here alone. I don't
think much of it; it isn't half as pretty as Long Lake. What's the use
of wasting our time here, anyhow?"
"Why--why--because there are people here! I just love seeing people,
Bessie, they're so interesting, because they're all so different, and
you never know what they're going to say or do. And there may be someone
we know here, too."
"There can't be anyone I know, Dolly."
"Oh, bother! Well, there may be someone I know, and that's the same
thing, isn't it? Come on, be a sport, Bessie."
"That's what you said about going in the car with Mr. Holmes the other
day, too."
"Oh, but this isn't a bit like that, Bessie."
"It might get us into just as much mischief, Dolly.
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