The Camp Fire Girls Solve a Mystery; Or, The Christmas Adventure at Carver House

u went camping, and the people thoug

en helping the others search for the secret passage, upstairs and downstairs, and back upstairs again, until she dropped, panting and exh

inst her dropping out. "You can run up and downstairs like a

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addled out into deep water. Nyoda was watching us from the shore. We were going to take the complete test-upset the canoe, undress in deep water, right the canoe and paddle back to shore. We got out where the water was over our heads and upset the

they shouted across the water, an

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us right the canoe!' I sputtered as well a

water and did dead man's float and it looked as though she had gone under. I followed her. But I laughed right out loud under water and made the bubbles

We could see Nyoda and Migwan and Gladys running away with their handkerchiefs stuffed into their mouths. We lay on the beach awhile, looking awfully limp and scared and after a while we let somebody help us to our cottage, and you should have heard the hila

me, and then with an irresistible burst of longing she ex

oha in the tone of one who knows a delightful secret. "Y

and then lighted up with that wonderful inner

, catching hold of Hinpoha

ured. The specialist is coming in a day or two to arrange the operation. O dear, no

! The sudden joy that surged through her nearly suffocated her. To walk! Perhaps to dance! The desire to dance had always been so strong in her that it sometim

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er thumps and crashes, mingled with the racket of breaking glass. The Winnebagos, rushing out into the hall from Uncle Jasper's study, were brushed aside by Sherry and Justic

the girls as they crept fearfully down the stairs. All felt that th

aused at the top. "Who's down there

l. "Throw me a plank, somebody, I'm dr

ecognizing his voice. "What

llar stairs, with the Winnebagos

vinegar which was gushing over him from the wreck of a two-hundred-gallon barrel lyi

cing him that he was not fatally injured. The stream of vinegar

t around to see what was on the other side of that wall. It was the fruit cellar. While he was poking around in it a big stone suddenly fell down out of the wall

rn you boys about it when you were sounding the walls with hammer

ld at the thought of w

lar resounded with peals of helpless laughter for the next twenty minutes. Justice tried to sweep up the broken glass, but sank weakly into

bag, "if Uncle Jasper could only have seen what he started with that