Cherry Ames 22 Rural Nurse by Helen Wells

Author:Helen Wells [Wells, Helen]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Grosset and Dunlap
Published: 2011-12-31T13:26:31+00:00

A HOUSE WITH A SECRET

105

She didn’t waste any time trying to be silent. Cherry ran through the kitchen for all she was worth. She remembered to touch the stove as she ran. It was stone cold. Not being used, then! Fleetingly she thought there must be another stove in the house, but her concern now was to escape. Thank heavens the back door of the kitchen opened at her touch.

She fl ed across the big back porch, down the steps, and around the back of the house.

She stumbled through a cluster of gnarled fruit trees.

The tangle of ginseng plants slowed her. It seemed like an eternity until she fi nally reached her car and jumped in.

Cherry started the car, pulling out of that place as fast as she could. She took one look to see whether anyone had followed her. No one was in sight. That didn’t mean no one was watching her! The man hiding in the house could have seen who she was. He didn’t want to be seen, either—of course. She headed the car along the weed fi lled roadway and out onto the highway, and stepped hard on the gas. She didn’t want anyone to follow her and catch up with her.

“What an experience!” she thought. “What a narrow squeak! Not worth the risk. I didn’t fi nd a single thing I was searching for—not the book nor ginseng roots nor the remedy. Only a shadow.”

But she knew now that someone—very likely Floyd or some pal of his—was up to something in the house Jane hoped to live in. The next thing was to prove his identity.

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