The Mystery at Dark Cedars

Mary Louise sat in the waiting room of the Riverside Hospital, idly looking at the magazines, while the nurses took Miss Grant to her private room. She couldn't help smiling a l...

With Silky in the lead, Mr. Gay and Mary Louise followed the path behind Dark Cedars which led directly into Cooper's woods. It was new to them both, for although they had gone...

The brown spaniel stopped under a maple tree and wagged his tail forlornly, looking pleadingly into his mistress's eyes, as if he were trying to tell her that he wasn't just mak...

The house in which Mary Louise's family lived was as different from the Grants' as day is from night. It was painted white, and its smooth green lawn was dotted here and there w...

The girls were returning from their second visit that day to Dark Cedars and were walking as fast as they could towards home. It was almost six o'clock, and Mary Louise usually...

The figure in white remained motionless in the doorway of Miss Grant's room. Mary Louise continued to sit rigid in the bed, while Jane, who was still lying down, clutched her ch...

"I'm not just tired," announced Jane Patterson, dropping into the hammock on Mary Louise's porch after the tennis was over. "I'm completely exhausted! I don't believe I can even...

It was a little after nine o'clock the following morning that Mary Louise and Jane set off for Dark Cedars. The money was safely hidden in Mary Louise's blouse, and Silky was to...

Mr. Gay was seated at the telephone table in the dining room the following morning when Mary Louise came downstairs to breakfast. She waited breathlessly for the news, for she f...

Sunday morning dawned clear and peaceful. As Mary Louise wakened to hear the birds singing in the trees outside the window of Hannah's old room at Dark Cedars, she could hardly...

"Yesterday afternoon. I was perfectly miserable after Saturday night. I knew Jane suspected me of doing that terrible thing to you, and I never slept a wink the whole night. So...

The Pearsons' home, an attractive house of the English cottage type, was half a mile from Mrs. Grant's, in the best residential section of Riverside. Mary Louise, noticing Miss...

Mary Louise's first impulse, upon leaving Miss Tracey's home, was to rush right over to Corinne Pearson with a demand to see the necklace which she had worn at the dance the nig...

"How was your fortune, Mary Louise?" inquired Max, as the former emerged from the gypsy's tent and joined the merry group in the field. "Did she say you'd marry a tall, good-loo...

Mary Louise spied Norman Wilder's car in front of Jane Patterson's house as she turned into her own street in Riverside; a moment later she recognized both Norman and Max on her...

The wooden shack where the Jones family lived was picturesque in its setting among the cedar trees behind Miss Grant's home. In summer time Mary Louise could understand living v...

Keeping under cover of the cedar trees, Mary Louise and Jane followed Elsie Grant, at a discreet distance, to the back of the house. Unlike the front entrance, there was a scree...

"But I can't sit down in this silk dress," she objected. "I might get it dirty, and I don't want to take it off till I see myself in a mirror. I might not have another chance to...

The two girls sat rigid with terror, Mary Louise holding tightly to Silky. In the darkness they could see nothing, for the denseness of the trees blotted even the sky from view....

"You've found the gold pieces!" exclaimed the girl, staring at the box in Mr. Gay's hand. "And the necklace!" she added, as the gypsy proudly put on the jewels and went off to s...