Crane Laura Dent. The Automobile Girls at Chicago: or, Winning Out Against Heavy Odds
CHAPTER I. THE MAN IN SECTION THIRTEEN
CHAPTER II. THE MISSING PASSENGER
CHAPTER III. A DIZZY ROUND OF PLEASURE
CHAPTER IV. BATTLE OF THE BULLS AND BEARS
CHAPTER V. AN EMBARRASSING MOMENT
CHAPTER VI. THE WRECK OF MR. A. BUBBLE
CHAPTER VII. THE MYSTERY OF THE IRON GATES
CHAPTER VIII. EXPLORING THE SECRET PASSAGE
CHAPTER IX. IN AN INDIAN GRAVEYARD
CHAPTER X. MEETING A TREASURE HUNTER
CHAPTER XI. GIVING AN ATTIC PARTY
CHAPTER XII. A CURIOUS OLD JOURNAL
CHAPTER XIII. THE MYSTERY OF THE ATTIC
CHAPTER XIV. TOMMY TAKES A WILD RIDE
CHAPTER XV. AN AMAZING OCCURRENCE
CHAPTER XVI. BOB SOLVES ANOTHER MYSTERY
CHAPTER XVII. A LONG-REMEMBERED CHRISTMAS
CHAPTER XVIII. BAB'S EXCITING DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XIX. A BITTER DISAPPOINTMENT
CHAPTER XX. CONCLUSION
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AN endless corridor it seemed to Barbara Thurston as little by little she dragged her drooping burden to the end of the aisle. Reaching the narrow passage that led past the staterooms, she was obliged to creep on hands and knees along the slippery lower side of the car.
Suddenly she heard a groan.
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The readers of this series must undoubtedly feel well acquainted with that quartette of sweet, dainty, lovable girls, Ruth Stuart, Barbara and Mollie Thurston and Grace Carter, who were met with in the first volume of this series, "The Automobile Girls at Newport." Their acquaintance really dated from the time Barbara Thurston so pluckily stopped a team of runaway horses driven by Ruth Stuart, a wealthy western girl, then summering at Kingsbridge, the home of the Thurstons. A warm friendship sprang up almost at once between the two girls, culminating in a long trip in Ruth's automobile, during which journey Ruth, Bab and Mollie Thurston, their friend Grace Carter, and their chaperon, Aunt Sallie Stuart, met with many exciting adventures. It was on this eventful trip, as will be recalled, that Barbara distinguished herself by causing the arrest of a society jewel thief, at the same time heaping coals of fire on the head of a girl cousin who had treated Barbara and Mollie with scornful contempt.
The girls were next heard from in "The Automobile Girls in the Berkshires," to which region, chaperoned, as always, by Ruth's Aunt Sallie, they had driven in Ruth's car for a month's stay in a lonely cabin in the Berkshire Hills. Their experiences with the "Ghost of Lost Man's Trail" was not the least of their exciting adventures there; in fact, their stay in the mountains was filled with a succession of strange happenings that thrilled the girls as nothing in their lives ever had done before.
