"
"Oh, do you _think_ you _can?"_ she asked.
"Sure, we can," I told her.
Just then somebody must have pulled her away; from the 'phone. Anyway, a
fellow's voice said, "Let me talk to him. What is he? Just a kid?" Then he
said, "Will you please run to Haverstraw and notify Judge Edwards, 22
Terrace Street, that his daughter and three friends are on the top of
Eagle's Nest, and to please have the authorities notified and a party
formed to come here. I will see that you're suitably rewarded."
I said, "I'd be ashamed to have the whole town of Haverstraw coming up
after met and scouts don't accept rewards. We'll send to Haverstraw and
tell Judge Edwards, and then we'll come up and get you. All you have to do
is to sit there and ten riddles till you see us. Which road do you take for
Eagle's Nest?"
Then he said how we should follow the west road from Haverstraw till we got
to a big white house with a windmill in front of it. Pretty soon after we
got past that, he said, we'd come to a cow path that led through the
fields. He said we should follow that till we got into the woods where we'd
see picnic grounds and then we'd find a trail that went up the mountain.
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