Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil: or, The Farm That Was Worth a Fortune
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Emerson Alice B.. Betty Gordon in the Land of Oil: or, The Farm That Was Worth a Fortune
CHAPTER I. BREAKFAST EN ROUTE
CHAPTER II. THINKING BACKWARD
CHAPTER III. WHAT BOB HEARD
CHAPTER IV. BLOCKED TRAFFIC
CHAPTER V. BETWEEN TRAINS
CHAPTER VI. QUICK ACTION
CHAPTER VII. A YANKEE FRIEND
CHAPTER VIII. FLAME CITY
CHAPTER IX. OLD INDIAN LORE
CHAPTER X. BOB LEARNS SOMETHING
CHAPTER XI. AN OIL FIRE
CHAPTER XII. IN THE FIELDS
CHAPTER XIII. THE THREE HILLS
CHAPTER XIV. TWO INVALIDS
CHAPTER XV. UNEXPECTED NEWS
CHAPTER XVI. HOUSEKEEPER AND NURSE
CHAPTER XVII. SICK FANCIES
CHAPTER XVIII. STRANGE VISITORS
CHAPTER XIX. LOOKING BACKWARD
CHAPTER XX. BETTY IS STOPPED
CHAPTER XXI. WHERE IS BOB?
CHAPTER XXII. OFF FOR HELP
CHAPTER XXIII. SELLING THE FARM
CHAPTER XXIV. UNCLE DICK’S BUYER
CHAPTER XXV. HAPPY DAYS
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Betty leaned over the rail, flinging the contents of the seed packets into the air and breathing a little prayer that the wind might carry them far and that none might “fall on stony ground.”
“If I never see the flowers, some one else may,” she thought. “I remember that old lady who lived in Pineville, poor blind Mrs. Tompkins. She was always telling about the pear orchard she and her husband planted the first year of their married life out in Ohio. Then they moved East, and she never saw the trees. ‘But somebody has been eating the pears these twenty years,’ she used to say. I hope my flowers grow for some one to see.”
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No Bob was to be seen when Betty reached her seat, but excited passengers were apparently trying to fall head-first from the car windows.
“I think we’ve run over some one,” announced a fussy little man with a monocle and a flower in his buttonhole.
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