CHAPTER IV
THE HEART OF THE FOREST
LINDA INGMARSSON was standing at the door when Hugh and Carl came up the path. She did not seem to be at all surprised to see him.
“I met Jethro Brown at the station,” he explained briefly. “He told me, oh, quite a lot of things. I decided not to take the train, to go into the woods instead.”
Linda shook her head gravely.
“I think I know what he told you,” she said. “It is a mad plan. You ought not to go.”
“But I'm going,” returned Hugh, and she smiled.
”Yes, I believe you are going,” she answered, “and perhaps I would not stop you if I could.”
The children came clattering in and Ingmarsson appeared by the door, so there was no more discussion just then. Later, however, when the
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