Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp; Or, The Old Lumberman's Secret

icago to work in the machine shop. Something happened be

urrent of affairs at the little cottage on Amity Street and that she had a

devoted to the sport. Nan had been unable to be on the ice Saturdays, because of he

ugh the weather was settled and the ice was perfectly safe. Sometimes the boys built a bonf

girls could see well enough. They were both good skaters, and with arms cr

ike my other self. We're Siamese twins. We strike out together perfectly. Oh, my

rful new fortune that seemed about to come to her; but

ney. Maybe something wil

ther pay your way--

a long time yet to fall. Maybe conditions will be different at h

not be the right th

sky was like black velvet pricked out with gold and silver stars. Their soft radiance shed some light upon the

home to shrink from association with the mill people and that is why she had urged Nan to take this long skate up the pond. Aro

red a gang of ice cutters a few days before, and had filled his own private icehouse. The men had cut out a roughly out

ost continued, it would be several days before the new ic

re near the Landing. The lights of Powerton Landing were twinkling ahead of them as the two friends swept

in her furs and Nan in her warm tam-o'-shanter and the muffle

ng, where it halted for a few seconds for passengers to embark or to leave the cars. This t

for more than a day since she could remember. It was going to be hard on Momsey, with Papa Sherwood away and Nan in s

me, Nan! Have you lost your tongue all of a

wn the pond to Tillbury,

curve and struck out for home at a pace that even the train could not equal. The rails followed the shore of the pond on t

great glare of light, and a shower of sparks, spouted from the smokesta

excited. "We can do better than thi

t swept down toward Woody Point. The girls shot in toward the sh

o sides and were playing old-fashioned hockey, "shinny-on-your-own-side" as it was locally called. Above the rumbling of the train

't look out," Nan had just said to her chum, when

had got in on the main track which had to be cleared before the passenger train could

g the skaters near the stamp factory. There was a crash of breaking ice and a scrambling

e boys yelling. Then a man's voice took u

gloved hands tightly. "He's night watchman at the stamp

nt had thrown them into utter confusion. Some skated for the shore, screaming for ropes and fence-rails; others only tried

ped Bess, pulling back. "You'll

Quick!" returned

fler from about her own neck. "If we could

hout to old Peter Newkirk on the shore. "Peter! Peter! Turn on the

the stamp works roof, advertising the company's output. The glare of it cou

uge sign was just inside that door. Before Nan and Bess had reached the edge of the broken

Nan to her chum. "Hold me tight b

he old, thick ice. With a sweep of her strong young arm she shot the end

early deprived him of both consciousness and power to help save himself. But Nan drew hi

ed, in triumph. "Give me your hand,

th. However, several men came running now from the stalled passenger train. The l

a huge man in a bearskin coat and felt boots. He was wrapped up so heavily, and his fur cap was pulled down so

t the rescued boy into the arms of a man who had just run from a nearby house. "Get him between bla

s before her face. "Oh, Nan! Nan!" she sobbed. "I didn't do a thing, not a thing. I

o see here in Tillbury," he said gruffly. "I hope she turns out to be half as smar

an?" she asked Bess. "Do stop your crying, Bes

been drowned, too," sobbed her

et's talk about it. We'll go home. I guess

orner for separating. Nan ran home from there quickly and burst into the kitch

the gravity of her father and the exaltatio

aid Momsey, drawing her daughter to

Blake, of Edinburgh," he said. "I can no longer doubt the existence of the fort

Nan, under

ar in person before the court there. The sum of money and other property willed to Momsey by her great uncle is

owing a sprat to catch a whale! For the amount of money we may have to spend to secure the fifty

ed Mr. Sherwood firmly. "And we