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“What a lovely quiet summer we’re going to have, we two,” exclaimed Migwan to Hinpoha, as they stood looking out of the window of their room into the garden, filled with rows of young growing things and bordered by a shallow stony river. Migwan, we remember, had come to spend...
Hinpoha walked in an ever increasing circle without tempting her out. The others, tired of waiting for her to be caught, joined in the search and beat the bushes and hunted thro...
10. CHAPTER X.—A BIRTHDAY PARTYAfter Nyoda had fired the shots out of the window, nothing was heard or seen of the ghost and the footsteps in the attic ceased. “It’s just as I thought,” said Nyoda, “someone h...
15. CHAPTER XIV.—GOOD-BYE TO ONOWAY HOUSE.By the first of September Migwan had made enough money from the sale of canned tomatoes to more than pay her way through college the first year. “It’s Mother Nature who has been...
6. CHAPTER VI.—THE WINNEBAGOS SCENT A PLOT.“Where are you going, my pretty maid, and why the step ladder?” said Nyoda to Migwan one morning. “Have your beans grown up so high over night that you have to climb a ladder to...
2. CHAPTER II.—NEIGHBORS.Onoway House stood on the Centerville Road, on a farm of about four acres. All of the land was not worked, just the part that was laid out as a garden and a small orchard of pea...
4. CHAPTER IV.—THE MEDICINE LODGE.Nyoda’s prophetic soul proved to be a true prophet, and there were trying times to follow the establishment of Ophelia at Onoway House. That very first night Nyoda woke with a s...
7. CHAPTER VII.—MOVING PICTURES.The Winnebagos looked at each other speechlessly. Belle Mortimer, the famous motion picture actress, whom they had seen on the screen dozens of times, and for whom Migwan had lo...
9. CHAPTER IX.—OPHELIA DANCES THE SUN DANCE.Among the other books at Onoway House there was a Manual of the Woodcraft Indians which belonged to Sahwah, and which she was very fond of quoting and reading to the other girls...
5. CHAPTER V.—SAHWAH MAKES A DISCOVERY.As there was no one of their acquaintance whom they could suspect of being the ghost, the trick was laid at the door of some unknown dweller along the road with a fondness for h...
8. CHAPTER VIII.—A CANNING EPISODE.Three times every week Migwan had been making the trip to town with a machine-load of vegetables, which was disposed of to an ever growing list of customers. Thanks to the early...
12. CHAPTER XII.—OPHELIA FINDS A FAIRY GODMOTHER.As the summer progressed, the girls had more than one conference as to what was to become of Ophelia when they left Onoway House. To let her go back to her life in the slums was...
11. CHAPTER XI.—THE WELL DIGGER’S GHOST.The next morning Mrs. Gardiner sent Mr. Landsdowne to interview the police force of the township in which the Centerville Road belonged, and he brought the whole force back with...
13. CHAPTER XIII.—A GAME OF HIDE-AND-SEEK.“Not unless you want to, Gladys,” said Mrs. Evans. “If you would rather stay out here until school opens, you may. Father and I are going to Boston in a few days, you know.”
3. CHAPTER III.—OPHELIA.“The bean weevils,” said Migwan, tragically. “Mr. Landsdowne said to watch out for them, although they were hardly ever found up north, but they’re here. He just found a bush wi...
1. CHAPTER I.—ONOWAY HOUSE.“What a lovely quiet summer we’re going to have, we two,” exclaimed Migwan to Hinpoha, as they stood looking out of the window of their room into the garden, filled with rows of...