A terrible panic, icy, sickening, rending, possessed her whole
body.
The huge gray thing came at her. Into the rushing of her ears broke
thudding sounds. The thing leaped up. A horrible petrifaction suddenly made
stone of Carley. Then she saw a gray mantlelike object cast aside to
disclose the dark form of a man. Glenn!
"Carley, dog-gone it! You don't scare worth a cent," he laughingly
complained.
She collapsed into his arms. The liberating shock was as great as had been
her terror. She began to tremble violently. Her hands got back a sense of
strength to clutch. Heart and blood seemed released from that ice-banded vise.
"Say, I believe you were scared," went on Glenn, bending over her.
"Scar-ed!" she gasped. "Oh--there's no word--to tell--what I was!"
Flo came running back, giggling with joy. "Glenn, she shore took you for a
bear. Why, I felt her go stiff as a post! . . . Ha! Ha! Ha! Carley, now how
do you like the wild and woolly?"
"Oh! You put up a trick on me!" ejaculated Carley. "Glenn, how could you?
. . . Such a terrible trick! I wouldn't have minded something reasonable.
But that! Oh, I'll never forgive you!"
Glenn showed remorse, and kissed her before Flo in a way that made some
little amends.
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