CHAPTER XVIII
BETWEEN TWO PERILS
"What--what are we going to do?" gasped Grace. She, as Betty said
afterward, seemed always to be the first to ask questions that were hard
to answer in an emergency. "They--they may attack us!"
"Why can't you say something less--less scary?" demanded Mollie who,
after the first gasp of fright, had come forward to stand beside Betty.
Amy had already shrunk to a place in the rear near Grace. It seemed to
be always thus, with Betty and Mollie facing the immediate danger, and
Grace and Amy needing protection.
Not that they were not brave when occasion demanded it. They would not
have been outdoor girls else, but somehow the first fear of something
menacing sent Amy and Grace scurrying to the rear, whence it needed
considerable persuasion to bring them to the van again.
"They--they don't seem to see us," ventured Amy, after a few tense
seconds, during which the four had stared at the alligators.
"They won't see you and Grace at all, if you stay behind us," said
Mollie a bit sharply. "There's no present danger, as far as I can see.
Why don't you come out and help Betty and me throw stones at them?"
"Oh, you're never going to do that!" gasped Grace.
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