es for the regulation electric
lights.

"They are gone!" breathed Mary. "Oh, what a miracle that was! You
touched the wire--that sent a current all about them! Grandie!" She
threw her arms about the shaking form, "you and I would never have
thought of that. Are you safe? Our friends have saved us!"

And Madaline in her fear had actually touched off that alarm!

"Why!" she stammered, recovering herself and springing over to the side
of Cleo and Grace, who had reentered the room. "How did I do that?"

"You touched the secret spring," said Mary. "Even I would have been
afraid to do it, for it is so highly charged. But you see our--enemies
got the shock, and we only saw the light. How--merciful to think they
have gone!"

CHAPTER X

NEW FRIENDS

The very last to recover her composure was Jennie. Woman-like, she had
courage enough to face the possibility of caring temporarily for a sick
man, but the sudden manifestation of light and the unexplained racket
and noise that followed were too much for the good-natured Jennie's
nerves. She was now "going to pieces," and the girls found more to do
for her than they did to care for Mary and the professor.

"Come on, Jennie," begged Cleo, "just get in the car and we will all
hurry out of here as fast as we can. You and Professor Benson take the
back seat, and we will all pile in as best we can. I could ride on the
tool box if I had to."

"Oh, yes, do come away," Jennie managed to say between gasps of "oh
dear me" and "gracious sakes alive." But she was following advice, and
was soon being assisted to the back seat by Tom, the driver, who never
for a moment lost the set hack-man's look, in spite of all the
excitement. "Whatever will Mrs. Dunbar say to all this," further
wailed Jennie.

"Don't you worry! Aunt Audrey will be glad we were able to help, and
that you were with us," declared Cleo. "Mary says it will be all right
to take her grandfather to the private sanitarium, the one we passed
along the mountain. Tom knows all about it, and thinks it is almost
like a hotel, specially for sick people. Then Mary is coming home with
us," declared Cleo delightedly. "Isn't that too lovely?"

Everyone agreed it was, this being evinced by the display of alacrity
with which the party were all hurried in the car. Mary had managed to
put together somehow a grip filled with the most necessary things for
her grandfather. This she directed Tom to take care of