Her hands were thrown up, her mouth dropped open, there was a look of wild terror in her staring eyes, and her face was deathly pale.

It was terrifying to see a grown woman seem so frightened.

She was pointing to the door, and, as their eyes followed her shaking finger, they forgot her fear in their own fright.
There, standing on its hind legs in the door, was an enormous bear, taller than any man they had ever seen.

Its mouth was open, and a long red tongue hung out between its gleaming teeth.

Trailing behind him was a heavy rope, that showed that he had broken away from some place of confinement.
[Illustration: "THERE WAS ONE WILD SCREAM AFTER ANOTHER."] There was one wild scream after another, as the girls sprang up, spilling the four Bobs out of their laps to the floor.