it?" La

lie pointed th

dly. "It's some sort of little ho

y be, let's go! What's the matter?" sh

illie cautioned her. "The place looks as

patiently. "And that is, that I'm getting soaking wet."

e all alone in the woods, and it's almost nig

the Codfish!" whispered Vi,

I think we'd better be careful. We'll go up to it softly and look abo

lsive Laura, so now they followed softly at her

eves ourselves," Laura giggled hystericall

f wood inside, but all the girls could see from the outside was a rude structure entirely covered by moss and interwoven twi

hut Billie came upon a small door. The latter was hardly more than four f

er ear. "It's beginning to pour pitchforks and I'm getting soaki

o wet and nervous. So she opened the l

not, for it was very very dark. But as her eyes became accu

ls, her voice still cautiously lowered. "I can't s

the tiny door, but once inside they were sur

of light coming from the little door that Vi had l

ly get a light,

fully. "She wants all the comforts of home-ouch!"

tter?" cried B

moaned Laura. "I'

said Billie, but Laura b

ied. "I only wish it had hap

satisfied people in the world, for before it was out of her mouth Billie uttered a s

yfully, adding with a good imitation

e seen that Billie was not in the best of tempers. "This place must be

erns, not to burn up the wood

ly out of the darkness. "It

ith her?" asked Laura, getting hysteric

indignantly back at her. "I've found something, I ha

ied Laura, fondly. "Don'

of light in the room that illuminated the fac

g at them while the flickering match in her ha

t kept on gaping. "Oh, Vi, you're a darling, and I forgive you for scaring

the girls looked about them curiously. And as they looked their curiosity and wonder grew

ed. "I thought I saw something.

they're all we hav

make a discovery. The discovery was a pair of thick white candles, each

f one candle, and then, with a sigh of excitement, b

ly, "isn't this the queerest, funniest litt

but solid, trampled-down earth, and began to examine a rude-lo

excitedly. "Look, girls, shelves and

eur. Why the person who had made the little cabin had not laid boards for his floor, nobody

form shelves, and there were several tins of canned goods upon t

ped chair, which had evidently been made from an o

of awe crept into her voice, "what the person is like th

ing back again. "Girls, I'd almost fo

odfish would not send the cold chills all over her. "Goodness, just listen

here all night," sa

come back," added Vi, her

kill us if he did,"

Billie, trying to speak lightly. But Laura spoil

ow there's on

ok as if a whole fa

but there may b

tools as if somebody had spent time in woodworking. There we

er stick-whoever he is

prying into his private affairs?" came fr

f thunder reached them. Then the rain

isten t

der cover. If we wer

forming a pool on the hard floor. But it did no

it will last," si

night," ret

nk it will last that l

much about

of our absence at the

t a searching par

eflesh all over them again. "I hear something. Don't