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be all right now." "You sit right down there on that bench in front of the station," advised the conductor. "Don't move away, or you'll get lost. Pine Bridge is quite a place. Bigger than Hedgeville--quite a bit bigger. And if anyone tries to bother you, just you run around to the street in front of the station, and you'll find a fat policeman there. He's a friend of mine, and he'll look after you if you tell him Tom Norris sent you. Remember my name--Tom Norris." "Thank you, and good-bye, Mr. Norris," they called to him together, as they stepped off the car. Then the whistle blew again, and the train was off. Although there were a good many people around, no one seemed to pay much attention to the two girls. Everyone seemed busy, and to be so occupied with his own affairs that he had no time to look at strangers or think about what they were doing. "We're a long way from home now, Zara, you see," said Bessie. "I guess no one here will know us, and we'll just wait till Miss Eleanor comes." "Maybe she's here already, waiting for us." "Oh, I don't think so." "We'd better look around, though. How is she going to get here, Bessie?" "I don't know. She never told me about that. We were talking as fast as we could because we were afraid Farmer Weeks might come along any time, and that would have meant a lot of trouble." "Suppose he follows us here, Bessie?" "He won't! He'll know that we're safe from him as soon as we're out of the state. I'm not afraid of him now--not a bit, and you needn't be, either." "Well, if you're not, I'll try not to be. But I wish Miss Eleanor would come along, Bessie. I'll feel safer then, really." "You've been brave enough so far, Zara. You mustn't get nervous now that we're out of the woods. That would be foolish." "I suppose so, but I wasn't really brave before, Bessie. I was terribly frightened when he locked me in that room. I didn't see how anyone would know what had become of me, or how they could find out where I was in time to help me." "Did you think about trying to run away by yourself?" "Yes, indeed, but I was afraid I'd get lost. I didn't know where we were. I'd never been that way before." "It's a good thing you waited, Zara. Even if you had got away and got into those woods where Jack took us, it would have been dangerous. You might easily have got lost, and it's the hardest thing to find people who are in the woods." "Why?" "Because they get t
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