"I'd pull her hair and make her sorry she
ever tried to help those villains to keep us. When they put her in
prison I'm going to see her, and jeer at her!"
Lolla, looking helpless now in her anger, said nothing, but she glared
at the two girls.
"I think these people are very superstitious," whispered Dolly to
Bessie, when it became plain that, for the moment, the two gypsies
intended only to watch them, without making any further attempt to tie
them up.
"I think so too," returned Bessie, in the same tone. "But I don't see
what good that is going to do us, Dolly."
"Neither do I, just yet, Bessie. But I can't help thinking that there
must be some way that we could frighten them, if we could only think of
it; so that they would be frightened and run away."
"We might tell them--Oh, I've got an idea, Dolly."
She looked at Peter and Lolla. They were at the very edge of the little
clearing in which Dolly had been imprisoned.
"Listen, Lolla," said Bessie, calmly. "I believe that you are a good
girl, though you have lied to me, and tried to make me think you were my
friend, when all the time you were planning, you could betray me.
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