ed--and, Bessie, they must be terribly worried about us, too. And
now tell me, as we go along, how you ever found me. I don't see how you
managed that."

So, as they made their way down the trail, Bessie told her of all that
had happened since her rude awakening at the camp fire, just after the
gypsy had carried Dolly off.

"Oh, Bessie, it was perfectly fine of you, and it's only because of you
that we're safe now! But you oughtn't to have taken such a risk! Just
think of what might have happened!"

"That's just it, Dolly. I've got time to think about it now, but then I
could only think of you, and what was happening to you. If I'd stopped
to think about the danger I'm afraid I wouldn't have come."

"But you must have known it was dangerous! I don't know anyone else who
would have done it for me."

"Oh, yes, they would, Dolly. That's one of the things we promise when we
join the Camp Fire Girls--always to help another member of the Camp Fire
who is in trouble or in danger."

"Yes--but not like that. It doesn't say anything about going into danger
yourself, you know."

"Listen, Dolly. If you saw me drowning in the water, you'd jump in after
me, wouldn't you? Or after any of the girls--if there wasn't time to get
help?"

"I suppose so--but that's different. It just means going in quickly,
without time to think very much about it. And you had plenty of time to
think while you were tramping along that horrid dark trail after me."

"Well, it's all over now, Dolly, and, after all, you had to save both of
us in the end."

"That was just a piece of luck, and a trick, Bessie. It didn't take any
courage to do that--and, beside, if it hadn't been for you I would never
have had the chance to do that. I wonder why Lolla let you have her
knife to cut those cords about me?"

"I think she's a regular actress, Dolly, and that she wanted to make me
feel absolutely sure she was on our side, so that we would both be there
in that trap when she and Peter came back."

"It's a good thing he was such a coward, Bessie."

"Oh, I think he'd be brave enough if he just had to fight with a man, so
that it was the sort of fighting he was used to. You see it wasn't his
plan, and when I said I'd use that knife he couldn't see why he should
run any risk when all the profit was for the other man."

"And when you played that trick with your voice he was frightened,
because he'd never heard of anything of that sort, and he didn't know
wha