I said, "I'm trying to
get my sister, too. If you happen to see her, tell her, will you?"
She said, "Oh dear; it's just _exasperating_. Won't you _please_ get off
the wire. I want Central. Why can't they help me? We're in such a _dreadful
predicament_."
I said, "I guess Central went to the movies or somewhere. I'm a boy scout
and I'm in a dark station somewhere or other near Haverstraw--"
"Oh, isn't that just too _provoking!_" she said. I said, "Oh, it isn't so
bad in here, only it's dark."
"Is there _anything_ I can _do_?" she said; "we're lost on the top of
Eagle's Nest Mountain. Oh, I wonder if you'd be willing to go to Haverstraw
and tell my people--Judge Edwards. It's _dreadful!_ We've been here since
five o'clock. We haven't had a thing to eat and we're nearly perishing. The
boys made a mistake about the trail. Oh, it's _terrible!_ We're frightened
out of our lives. I'll _never, never_ come up this _horrible_ mountain
again!"
I said, "Are the boys scouts?"
She said, "No, they're regular young men and they're _utterly bewildered!"_
I said, "Now I _know_ they're not scouts.
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