She felt as if those sinuous fingers were
still about her throat, and she could see those terrible eyes peering
into hers in spite of all her efforts to forget her awful experience.
Some boys had already been sent off to the nearest place where it would
be possible to get a conveyance to take her home, and they now returned
with a covered carriage.
Into this Miss Ellis and Dorothy were assisted, while the remainder of
the girls were soon ready to leave the grounds in the large picnic
wagons.
The boys "to a man" remained in the woods, helping diligently in, what
now seemed to be, a useless search.
Over the narrow plank, just above the dam, the man no doubt had escaped
to the other side, where the old ruins of a mill, with a big water
wheel, made a safe hiding place for the fellow.
Squire Travers was much annoyed and worried over the occurrence. To
think such a thing could happen with him right there, in the woods,
seemed incredible.
But Ralph assured him a similar thing had happened in the public streets
of Dalton, and the same man had gotten away. Why should it be strange
then that he would be able to make his escape in a dense woods?
"But he must be caught," insisted the squire, "if we have to canvass the
entire town and surrounding places to get him.
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