Tommy lay on her back, gazing
scowlingly up into the grinning face of the guide. Suddenly her
expression changed. A look of cunning appeared in her eyes. Then
Tommy Thompson turned the tables on her tantalizers in a way that set
the party in a greater uproar. Janus Grubb, too, learned a lesson that
he did not soon forget.
CHAPTER XI
THE TRAGEDY OF CHOCORUA
"Pull harder!" screamed Tommy. "I'm getting a ruthh of blood to my
head. Pull fatht, Mr. Januth."
This sally was greeted with another shout from the girls. Tommy,
having turned her head to one side to glance up the slope, had
discovered something. That something was a little nub or projection
that protruded from the rock directly in her path. Unless they changed
her course she would be scraped over the projection, which the girl
well knew would cause her some pain as well as tear her skirt. But it
was not of this latter that she was thinking when she called to the
guide to hurry. The little, lisping girl had evolved a plan; but, that
they might not suspect her of any trickery, she screamed the louder.
In her quick survey of the situation above her she also discovered that
the upper end of the rope was tied to a rock, so that the rope could
not get away.
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