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Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp By: Alice B. Emerson |
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Or, The Mystery of Ida Bellethorne by ALICE B. EMERSON Author of Betty Gordon at Bramble Farm , Betty Gordon at Boarding School , "Ruth Fielding Series," etc. Illustrated New York Cupples & Leon Company Publishers Books for Girls By ALICE B. EMERSON 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated BETTY GORDON SERIES BETTY GORDON AT BRAMBLE FARM BETTY GORDON IN WASHINGTON BETTY GORDON IN THE LAND OF OIL BETTY GORDON AT BOARDING SCHOOL BETTY GORDON AT MOUNTAIN CAMP RUTH FIELDING SERIES RUTH FIELDING OF THE RED MILL RUTH FIELDING AT BRIARWOOD HALL RUTH FIELDING AT SNOW CAMP RUTH FIELDING AT LIGHTHOUSE POINT RUTH FIELDING AT SILVER RANCH RUTH FIELDING ON CLIFF ISLAND RUTH FIELDING AT SUNRISE FARM RUTH FIELDING AND THE GYPSIES RUTH FIELDING IN MOVING PICTURES RUTH FIELDING DOWN IN DIXIE RUTH FIELDING AT COLLEGE RUTH FIELDING IN THE SADDLE RUTH FIELDING IN THE RED CROSS RUTH FIELDING AT THE WAR FRONT RUTH FIELDING HOMEWARD BOUND RUTH FIELDING DOWN EAST RUTH FIELDING IN THE GREAT NORTH WEST RUTH FIELDING ON THE ST. LAWRENCE Cupples & Leon Co., Publishers, New York 1922 [Illustration: THE WHOLE PARTY TURNED OUT GAILY. "Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp."] CONTENTS CHAPTER I THE ORANGE SILK OVER BLOUSE II THE FRUITS OF TANTALUS III OFF FOR A GALLOP IV A SECOND IDA BELLETHORNE V MEASLES VI A DISAPPEARANCE VII ALL MRS. STAPLES COULD SAY VIII UNCLE DICK MUST BE TOLD IX THE LIVE WIRE OCTETTE X BEAUTIFUL SNOW XI STALLED, AND WITHOUT A DOCTOR XII THE TUNNEL XIII AN ALARM XIV THE MOUNTAIN HUT XV THE LOST GIRL XVI THE CAMP ON THE OVERLOOK XVII OFF ON SNOWSHOES XVIII GREAT EXCITEMENT XIX THE EMERGENCY XX BETTY'S RIDE XXI BETTY COMES THROUGH XXII ON THE BRINK OF DISCOVERY XXIII CAN IT BE DONE? XXIV TWENTY MILES OF GRADE XXV ON THE DECK OF THE SAN SALVADOR CHAPTER I THE ORANGE SILK OVER BLOUSE "This doesn't look like the street I came up through!" exclaimed Betty Gordon. "These funny streets, with their dear old fashioned houses, all seem, so much alike! And if there are any names stuck up at the corners they must hide around behind the post when I come by like squirrels in the woods. "I declare, there is a queer little shop stuck right in there between two of those refined looking, if poverty stricken, boarding houses. Dear me! how many come down in the world families have to take 'paying guests' to help out. Not like the Peabodys, but really needy people. What is it Bobby calls 'em? 'P.G.s' 'paying guests.' "I was a paying guest at Bramble Farm," ruminated Betty, still staring at the little shop and the houses that flanked it on either side. "And I certainly had a hard time there. Bobby says that these people in Georgetown are the remains of Southern aristocracy that were cast up on this beach as long ago as the Civil War. Unlike the castaways on cannibal islands that we read about, Bobby says these castaways live off the 'P.G.s' and that's what Joseph Peabody tried to do! He tried to live off me. There! I knew he was a cannibal. "Oh! Isn't that sweet?" Her sudden cry had no reference to the army of boarding house keepers in the neighborhood, nor to any signpost that pointed the way back to the little square where the soldiers' monument stood and where Betty was to meet Carter, the Littells' chauffeur, and the big limousine. For she was still staring at the window of the little shop. "What a lovely orange color! And that starburst pattern on the front! It's lovely! What a surprising thing to see in a little neighborhood store like this. I'm going to buy it if it fits me and I've money enough left in my purse... Continue reading book >>
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