Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island; Or, The Mystery of the Wreck

tty, rather upturned nose. She put her hand to the drop to be sure

e cried, "i

ave looked more startled. Then Billie Bradley cocked an eye at what she c

ura. "It's no more raining than you are. And, anyway, haven't

her indignation. "If you don't b

" Billie began scornfully, but the third of th

Now, what ever are we going to do?" Vi dropped down in a pathetic

er understand why she is being punished. But just now this wistfulness irritated Billie Brad

inny," she cried. "Get up and help us thin

," said Laura

ny teacher at Three Towers Hall, where they were students, had sent them into the wo

loved it was a trip into the woods. They had started off in

d, to their absolute dismay, that they did not know which way to go. The

ally frightened. Suppose they couldn't find Three Towers before dusk? Suppose they should be forced to stay in the woods all night? These and a hundr

! It was a situation to try the patience of a saint. And the girls were not saints. They were just happy, fun-lo

rted on a different train of thought. She caught Vi's wrist in he

n a whisper, "we shou

ly, but it was Laur

h is safe in jail, and has been there for a long time? Now

" Billie insisted. "And the Codfis

ng. And I suppose," she added, beginning to feel deliciously goose-fleshy, "that we'd be the v

want to stand there all day talking about the Codfish and revenge, you can, but I'm going

skly, bringing an hysterical giggle from Vi. "Come

ind it, it won't do us much good," sai

on. I feel it in my bones that Three Towers is somewhere off in this direc

nity will be taken to recount to new readers some of the adventur

tead at Cherry Corners in the upper part of New York State. The strange legacy had come to Billie from an eccentric

that the boys, Billie's brother Chetwood, Laura's brother Teddy, and another boy, Fe

five thousand dollars in cash. The money had enabled Billie to replace a statue which she had accidentally broken a little while before and had also given her the chance t

imes, too-have been told of in the second book of the

a Peabody and Eliza Dilks. These girls were sneaks and tattletales of the worst order an

t she would spoil all the fun. Amanda had done her best to live up to the expectations of the girls, but try as she would, she

nks of the beautiful Lake Molata, and the girls and boys had spent many hap

the beginning, but Billie and the boys had given chase in an automobile and had succeeded in recovering the trunk. They had also succeeded in getting a good look at the man, whose hair was red, e

of the teachers of her purse when she was returning from town, and had later su

o the police. Though, as Laura said, the thief had been in jail for some time, the chums had never stoppe

forest that was growing darker and darker,

gether as if for protection. The rain was beginning to come a little faster

stock still and looke

his," she said. "For all we know we may be ge

urt," added Vi

ead and, peering through the dusk, had seen the outline of

and half-fearing, half-hoping, they