Two girls and a mystery

Barbara Winters had been reading in the alcoved window seat, half hidden from the rest of the cozy living room. It was really an exciting book, borrowed from one of the girls at...

It was because Bab Winters’ eyes were closed that she missed seeing what Gordon did. But Gerry saw it all. Gerry Thompson made it a point never to miss anything!

“It isn’t some one suing you, I hope,” said Gerry to Bab’s averted fair head. “Or a summons to court,” pensively. “Or some one dunning you for money. It isn’t anything like that...

After the two girls and Mrs. Winters had discussed and rediscussed Bab’s legacy until they had viewed it from every possible angle, Bab began to think in more practical terms.

While Barbara Winters turned the lucky ring over and over in her hand she was uncomfortably conscious that the eyes of Samuel James were upon her in an intent, speculative look.

A group of excited young folks, friends of Gerry and Bab and Gordon, were lounging on the lawn outside the tennis court on the Seymour place. It was a very hot day and, while so...

Warm and sunny, with a fresh breeze blowing. The scent of roses drifted in at the window and the dazzling gleam of the morning sun roused the two girls from pleasant dreams to j...

Mrs. Fenwick followed the two old people. She was dressed very quietly and, as usual, had little to say. She smiled at Bab and asked her to speak a little louder, although the g...

“Leave that to me,” said Gordon confidently. “In fact, if I am not very much mistaken, yonder rambling shack once called itself a livery stable. Come on, Charlie, let’s investig...

The old horse, ancient and worn by many cares as he was, shied as the figure in tattered clothes rushed toward them. Seth Wiggley uttered an imprecation and sawed at the reins.

They approached the broken front steps slowly. The house, depressed in a glen and hemmed in by trees as it was on all sides but one, seemed oddly aloof from the rest of the worl...

For a moment there was tense stillness in the room. Once more Bab felt as though an icy wind enveloped her. She was about to move, desperately intent upon breaking the spell tha...

“Well, I must say he made a lot of noise about it!” Gerry hated to remember just how startled she had been. “What made him leave so quickly and where has he gone?”

The first of them was Gordon Seymour. She saw him just below her window. He was clad in khaki breeches and puttees, and a scarlet sweater atop this outfit gave a flare of color...

What had seemed ghastly the evening before in the shadow-filled library, was quite a different thing now, heard in the presence of them all and with the reassuring sunlight stre...

“As you know,” said Bab dully, “I have never had the ring off my finger since we started from Scarsdale. It was on my finger,” her voice sank almost to a whisper, “when I went t...

“That” was the sound of sobbing in the woods. It was the soft, heartbroken crying of a child and seemed to come from somewhere quite close to Bab Winters and Gordon Seymour.

The girls and boys had looked the old house over in search of the lucky ring. They had searched the whole day, all of them, even, in some instances, prying up boards in the floo...

Of course it was, and for some time the young folks entertained no doubt but what they would find Bab’s mysterious inheritance at once. But in this they were doomed to disappoin...

That moment was one the girls and boys--and Rosa Lee--would never forget. What held them silent they did not know. Fear of the unknown perhaps, a temporary mental and physical p...

The theory of a secret chamber gave the girls and boys plenty to think about during the next few days. They not only theorized; they worked, and worked hard. Of course, the main...

“I’ve thought of that, too, Don,” she confessed. “But it would take time to follow up that clew. And we haven’t any time! Not that I blame Rosa Lee,” she added swiftly, loyally....

It was some time before Barbara Winters could be made to credit the amazing statement of the forlorn-looking child; but when she accepted it at last, there followed the inevitab...

When the young folks could force themselves to think coherently again, it was decided that the boys should wait beside Bab’s miraculously revealed fortune, guarding it there in...

Two days later, having done some very necessary shopping in the village, the girls and boys, Mrs. Fenwick, Rosa Lee, the sapajou and Uncle Jerry’s battered chest, said good-by t...