The Blue Grass Seminary Girls' Vacation Adventures Or, Shirley Willing to the Rescue

Mabel hurried away in response to this command. She was fortunate enough to find the physician after a brief search, and she conducted him back to where Mr. Willing still held S...

Shirley Willing was a typical product of the little town of Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky; and at the time this story opens had just passed her fifteenth year. She was the one...

Shirley Willing, with flaming eyes and tightly-clenched hands, jumped quickly forward, and with her right hand seized the bridle of a horse that was bearing a strange boy along...

Shirley glanced carefully about her in the dim light. They stood on the very top of the little hill, and all about them was water. Perhaps a quarter of a mile to the right, howe...

"Jimmy," said Mr. Willing the following morning, "I want you to go to town and buy a new strong lock, one that cannot be opened from the outside. We will take no further chances...

The speaker was Shirley, and the date was one week from the day on which the girl, by her daring ride, had saved scores in the Illinois town and in the valley from perishing in...

Upon Leonard's first cry of surprise, Jenkins and the two policemen had moved toward the house, and for the moment Jones had been left unguarded. The prisoner was not slow to ta...

"Leonard," said Mr. Willing, "you stand the first watch, from six o'clock in the morning until two. Jimmy can watch from two until ten, and Frank, you stand guard from ten until...

Shirley realized that she was in a serious predicament. Guarded as she was, she had no hope of escape, and she realized that the situation was rapidly growing worse. Every step...

Mr. Willing's anger at the manner in which Jimmy had been injured knew no bounds. It was late when Shirley reached home, but her father wanted to go to town at once and put the...

It was fifteen minutes to six when Shirley reached the hotel. At the Vine Street entrance she hesitated a few moments, for now that the time for action was at hand, she grew ner...

The little town of Paris stretches out for a considerable distance along Stoner Creek, and for this reason Shirley realized that the chances of picking the locality where Jimmy...

Jones was standing aft in the launch and had levelled his revolver in deliberate aim. But before he could pull the trigger, there was an unexpected move in the boat.

In spite of a certain sadness caused by her father's condition, Mabel agreed, and the two girls made their way to the large stable a quarter of a mile from the farmhouse.

He climbed up into the loft and threw down an extra quantity of hay, which he strewed about the far corner of the stall. On this he spread a blanket he had brought with him from...

"Perhaps," said Mr. Ashton, "that is the reason he is in no hurry to return. The chances are he has had enough of that job, after his experience last night."

It was the first time the girls had been in the little town of Paris, except for a few minutes on their way back from Illinois, since school had closed for the summer vacation....

For a moment she hesitated, but for a moment only. Then mounting her horse, she set out resolutely for the address given. She climbed the dark stairs and went at once to the roo...

They found Jimmy Smith in the stable leaning over Gabriel's stall and talking to him in low tones. The lad stepped back and lifted his cap from his head as the two girls approac...

When the party had returned to the bank of the stream after an unsuccessful search of the little woods, it had not needed the wave of Shirley's hand from the _Sybil_ to tell the...

As she walked along, the pain in Shirley's foot became less and less, until finally she was not conscious of it. The girls soon sat down upon the grass, where they watched the m...

He turned and strode rapidly toward the house where he immediately telephoned for a veterinary to come out and look at Gabriel. Then he went to his own room, where he sat down,...

The following afternoon, in the touring car, the entire Willing party was driven to the track. They went immediately to Gabriel's quarters in the training field, where, after a...

"What else is there to do?" asked Shirley. "I am just as anxious to get in as you are, and if you will suggest a plan we will act upon it."

From early in the morning until after the races started, crowds continued to pour into the grandstand and overflow into the paddock. Thousands of women, in brilliant costumes, g...

It was Shirley who spoke. Mr. Willing looked up from his morning paper and turned his eyes toward the distant pike. Between the fields of tall hemp, a quarter of a mile away, a...

"Why, he saved us a futile search in the woods. He figured that it was you who had taken the _Sybil_ and it was upon his suggestion that we came up stream again."

"The rest of you will have to come to the track by yourselves. I have some business to attend to. I'll meet you there. I'll leave the car for you."

"Come on, then," said Mabel, "but be careful. I told Clara you probably wouldn't be home until in the morning, and no one here must see you in that costume."

"To be sure," said Jimmy quietly. "Gabriel and I have a language of our own, and when I told him Miss Shirley was coming back he just told me how anxious he had been to see you...