The Corner House Girls' Odd Find Where they made it, and What the Strange Discovery led to   By: Grace Brooks Hill

THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS' ODD FIND

WHERE THEY MADE IT; AND WHAT THE STRANGE DISCOVERY LED TO

BY

GRACE BROOKS HILL

Author of "The Corner House Girls," "The Corner House Girls Under Canvas," etc.

ILLUSTRATED BY R. EMMETT OWEN

PUBLISHERS BARSE & HOPKINS NEW YORK, N. Y. NEWARK, N. J.

BOOKS FOR GIRLS

The Corner House Girls Series By Grace Brooks Hill

Illustrated.

THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS AT SCHOOL THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS UNDER CANVAS THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS IN A PLAY THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS' ODD FIND THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS ON A TOUR

(Other volumes in preparation)

BARSE & HOPKINS

Publishers New York

Copyright, 1916, by Barse & Hopkins

The Corner House Girls' Odd Find

PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE I A Find in the Garret 9 II "A Perfectly Savage Santa Claus" 22 III Dorothy's Burglar 30 IV The Family Album And Other Things 36 V No News for Christmas 41 VI Treasure Trove 48 VII "God Rest Ye, Merrie Gentlemen" 55 VIII Where Is Neale O'Neil? 67 IX Ruth Is Suspicious 74 X What Mr. Con Murphy Did not Know 84 XI Some Excitement 95 XII Miss Pepperill's Disaster 105 XIII Agnes in the Woods 115 XIV Barnabetta 128 XV Agnes Shoulders Responsibility 137 XVI Several Arrivals 150 XVII At Cross Purposes 161 XVIII What Happened in the Night 171 XIX The Key to the Closet 183 XX Lemuel Aden's Diary 193 XXI "Everything at Sixes and at Sevens" 202 XXII Barnabetta Confesses 214 XXIII Who Was the Robber? 225 XXIV Neale O'Neil Flings a Bomb 237 XXV Agnes Is Perfectly Happy 247

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Why, we're millionaires, Neale," Agnes declared Frontispiece

And there was the baby, under a veil, sleeping as peacefully as could be 106

"You think I'm a thief. I won't stay here" 167

"You'll break it!" gasped Agnes. "That's what I mean to do," said Ruth 223

THE CORNER HOUSE GIRLS ODD FIND

CHAPTER I

A FIND IN THE GARRET