The Corner House Girls on Palm Island

“Where does the sound come from?” demanded Agnes in her abrupt way, but very carefully picking brown chestnuts out of a prickly burr—and with gloves on one may be sure. Catch Ag...

The four orphaned Kenway sisters lived in Bloomsburg when they were first introduced in the initial volume of this series, called “The Corner House Girls.” Ruth, the eldest, had...

Her brother and sister followed closely on her heels, and the Kenway party came afterward, but almost as quickly. They saw a man lying on the ground, and at first he lay so stil...

Ruth, and her three sisters as well, loved to play “Lady Bountiful.” Having been placed for a time in close financial straits themselves, the older girls at least well understoo...

If Neale O’Neil was not a good prophet, he certainly was a sure prophet, and Agnes Kenway admitted it. When the time came to leave the Poole party it did everything that the you...

Of course Tess and Dot Kenway had gone back to school after a few days. But while they were housed up Sammy Pinkney learned something. He scoffed at girls as playfellows quite o...

The tinkle of the bells on the Christmas tree was silvery in tone, and there was nothing about the sound to frighten even Dot. But it was mysterious, and Mrs. MacCall approached...

There was one matter which had troubled Ruth, and her friends, as well, before they left Milton and the old Corner House. Even her illness could not entirely turn Ruth’s mind fr...

Neale O’Neil tried to keep his eye on Tess and Dot, as he had promised Mr. Howbridge and Ruth, and he succeeded pretty well in doing so. But the children made their own friends...

The boy, however, was usually so good-natured that he overlooked a lot that Agnes said to him when she was ruffled. On this occasion, however, he enjoyed keeping certain facts s...

That afternoon tea-party in Miss Hastings’ suite was one of the nicest things that had ever happened to Agnes Kenway. She had dreamed of being entertained by a person like the B...

Those streaks on the horizon foreboded evil weather, as Luke had feared. None of the party on the _Isobel_ had ever seen a storm gather so quickly. In an hour the waves were whi...

An hour after sunrise the keel of the _Isobel_ scraped upon the sands of the shallow cove which indented the western shore of this unknown island that was to be the refuge of th...

After all, that was the gayest of gay breakfasts. Tess and Dot did not appreciate the gravity of the situation in any case; they were only glad to be off “that pitchy boat,” as...

“You come on, and keep still,” he said, still dragging her by the wrist. “Don’t even whisper. The fog is rising slowly and the dawn will soon appear. My flock is scary in the da...

Dot’s cries of surprise and Tess’ shrieks for help brought Neale bounding through the grove with the older girls after him in wild alarm. What they saw first was calculated to a...

Imagine becoming bored on a desert island in the tropics! But that is exactly what happened in the case of Dot Kenway. Nor was Tess in much finer fettle on the fourth morning of...

Agnes Kenway was as light-footed as a deer. She ran as hard as she could around the slope of the hill on which the big palm grew, and thence down into the green wood. She shoute...

With the night shut down upon Palm Island and the sea there was absolutely no use in the anxious party standing longer at the inlet, out of which the _Isobel_ had drifted, carry...

“I suppose even that might be done,” admitted Mr. Howbridge. “But, you know, there are five of us, and we are of some weight. The raft must cover sufficient area to bear us up,...

It was a very lonely evening for Ruth and Agnes Kenway. The boys had made the new camp near the spring as snug as possible. An outthrust rock partially sheltered them, and they...

The fact that they were sailing upon an unmanageable boat, upon an unknown sea, and were quite helpless, did not disturb the slumbers of Tess and Dot Kenway. As Tess had thought...

The two older Corner House girls, like the two younger, were fear-ridden during at least a part of that second night of their separation. But perhaps Tess and Dot had much less...

The startled and sleepy children beside the pool on the smaller island clung together in speechless terror for the few minutes following their being aroused by the marine “ghost...

The evening following, the _Isobel_ poked her nose into the passage past the fort and ran into the harbor of St. Sergius. It was true that her appearance was not noted by the wh...