The Motor Girls on Waters Blue or The Strange Cruise of the Tartar

hat!" cried Cora.

rs!" fairly screamed

" said Belle, soothingly, as Mrs. Kimball pressed back on the pillow the fr

ured, over a

father-he may never see ze

been a robbery, the authorities shall be notified. I will have

g off down the road. I'll

ou would,

oved rather good, than otherwise, for the patient, for there was a glow and flush to her

chamber where the lace seller ha

the chum of Cora's brother, who was coming up the side steps

aw him sneak up on the porch, and try to get away with it. He dropped it like a hot potato when I sang out to him. But whose is it? Doesn't look li

here-in a sort of collapse from hunger. And she has told the strangest story-all abou

foil the villain in getting the papers. Say, better not let Jack know about thi

youth, whom Belle had not noticed si

" complained Harry. "I was just

going to steal the

as to that," W

in his room, waiting for the doctor, when I heard someone come up the steps. At first I thought it was Dr. Blake

ll, went after him and he dropped it. Ahem! Nothing like having a first-class

or just the empty valise," suggested Harry, with a sm

better look," and he was proceeding to open

d poor little Inez may not like it. Leave it up

ged the owner of that name. "Nothing like making a good impre

murmured Harry,

d up the stairs to the room where Inez as restin

el!" gasped a Spanish girl. "O

f crackling documents from a side pocket of the valise, under a pile of filmy lace, at

. Kimball's hands a mass of the beautiful cob-webby stuff. "I

hall be glad to purchase some of it, and pay you well for it-I ca

ll yours. I care not for it, now zat I ha

ome man was trying to

rita," was the

e had the valise, Walter said," pu

he be?" a

all, but some enemies know I have papairs zat prove ze innocence of Senor Ralcanto. Zis man-Pedro Valdez he call himself-has been trying to get zem from me. He tried in New York, and he said

ss. "To think that such thi

t at the end of them y

away, didn'

, dear! I'm glad we

di

ds in an appealing gesture. "But if you will take zese papairs, Senorita, an

ould you like to have him come and talk to you-he would underst

said Inez, with a graceful dignit

Belle. "He loves anything about, p

egime-zey like not reform in Sea Horse Island," chattered Inez. "Zey lose too muc

ully mixed up," sighed

Belle, to straighten

'd better put these pa

em into Cora's rat

the girl. "Zat-zat villain, if I must call

mball s

ora. "Jack is home now, to sa

claimed his mother. "

ght to b

now," volunteered Bel

ourselves. Cora, slipping the bundle of papers the Spanish girl had given her into the house safe, begged Walter to keep a sharp lookout for the possible return of the mysterious man, and then she went back to stay with Inez until Dr. Bl

ict regarding Jack. "If he could go south for the winter, it would be the making of him. He'll

ts it," said Mrs. Kimball. "

The easiest prescription to write in the world. Feed

ise us about her father,

Mr. Robinson, with his business connection

red Cora. "I do ho

judge by the past activities of the motor girls, she is in for a great deal

see Jack again?"

a simple bromide mixture for those shrieking nerves of his-they will cry out once in a while

tunately, money matters did not stand in the road, and since Jack was not to keep up

Kimball. "I had rather counted on a quiet winte

l for the best," sugge

ay, I won't have a

who had just come back for an evening call, sat looking a

r, Bess," su

you,

?" asked Cora, smi

!" burst out Bess. "Listen! Papa and mamma want you to come with us

eave Jack!" sa

e. "It would be just the thing

I should say there coul

gasped

rs. Kimball!"

z?" questioned Cora. "Did y

e inquiries. Oh, but let's settle this first. Will you come with us, Mrs. Ki

, Mother?" C

-and yet there is no good

"I'm coming, too! I

for the We