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Dolly . '' This she slipped gently beneath Dotty 's pillow , and then stepping softly to the open edge of the tent she stepped down to the ground and walked swiftly toward the lake . Dolly had learned as they came up the lake in the motor boat that there was a footpath along the lake shore which led directly from the camp to the railroad station . It was about a mile long and passed several other camps , but Dolly felt sure that she could walk the distance , and allowing time to rest now and then could reach the station before six o'clock , when the first morning train went through . The dim starlight just enabled her to make out by her little watch that it was two o'clock when she started . She felt no fear of bears or wolves now , for her whole mind and soul were filled with the one idea of going home . She would have started , had the road been lined with hot ploughshares , so indomitable was her will and so strong her resolution .