Chapter 1. Danger
_ CHAPTER I. DANGER
"How cold it is!" exclaimed Grace Ford, wrapping closer about her a fur neck-piece, and plunging her gloved hands deeper into the pockets of her maroon sweater. "I had no idea it was so chilling!"
"Nonsense!" cried Betty Nelson, her cheeks aglow. "Skate about, and you‘ll soon be warm enough. Isn‘t it glorious, Mollie?"
"Surely, and the ice is perfect. Come on Grace, and we‘ll see who‘ll be first to the bend!" and Mollie, her dark eyes dancing under the spell of the day, circled about the almost shivering Grace, doing a gliding waltz on skates.
"I don‘t want to race!" protested the tall, slim girl who had complained about the weather.
"Oh, but you must!" insisted Betty. "Come, we‘ll have a short, sharp one, and then you‘ll feel so warm you‘ll wonder you ever said it was chilly."
"I wish I had brought along that vacuum bottle of hot chocolate, as I intended," murmured Grace, reflectively.
"Nobody stopped you!" exclaimed Mollie, a

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