Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall: or, Solving the Campus Mystery
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Emerson Alice B.. Ruth Fielding at Briarwood Hall: or, Solving the Campus Mystery
CHAPTER I. THE EXODUS
CHAPTER II. THE MAN WHO PLAYED THE HARP
CHAPTER III. APPROACHING THE PROMISED LAND
CHAPTER IV. THE RIVALRY OF THE UPEDES AND THE FUSSY CURLS
CHAPTER V "THE DUET"
CHAPTER VI. THE ENTERING WEDGE
CHAPTER VII. THE UPEDES
CHAPTER VIII. THE MARBLE HARP
CHAPTER IX. THE GHOSTLY TRIBUNAL
CHAPTER X. SOMETHING MORE THAN GHOSTS
CHAPTER XI. THE VOICE OF THE HARP
CHAPTER XII. THE MYSTERY DEEPENS
CHAPTER XIII. BEGINNINGS
CHAPTER XIV. THE SWEETBRIARS
CHAPTER XV. THE NIGHT OF THE HARPOCRATES
CHAPTER XVI. THE HAWK AMONG THE CHICKENS
CHAPTER XVII. GOODY TWO-STICKS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE MYSTERY AGAIN
CHAPTER XIX. THE TRIUMVIRATE
CHAPTER XX. AT TRITON LAKE
CHAPTER XXI. ON THE ICE
CHAPTER XXII. THE HARPIST ONCE MORE
CHAPTER XXIII. THE SECRET
CHAPTER XXIV "WHO IS THE TATTLE-TALE?"
CHAPTER XXV. GETTING ON
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In the first volume of this series, entitled, "Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill; Or, Jasper Parloe's Secret," is related how Ruth and Helen and Tom came to be such close friends. The Camerons had been with Ruth when the lost cash-box belonging to Uncle Jabez Potter was found, and out of which incident Ruth's presence in the Camerons' automobile on this beautiful September morning, and the fact that she was accompanying Helen to school, arose.
Mr. Macy Cameron, a wealthy dry-goods merchant, and a widower, had selected the best school for his daughter to attend of which he could learn. Briarwood Hall, of which the preceptress was Mrs. Grace Tellingham, was a large school (there being more than two hundred scholars in attendance for the coming term), but it remained "select" in the truest sense of the word. It was not an institution particularly for the daughters of wealthy people, nor a school to which disheartened parents could send either unruly girls, or dunces.
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"She's dainty," repeated her chum. "But she looks odd."
Below, on the other deck, the music of a little orchestra had been tinkling pleasantly. Now a man with the harp, another with a violin, and a third with a huge guitar, came up the companionway and grouped themselves to play upon the upper deck. The three musicians were all foreigners – French or Italian. The man who played the harp was a huge, fleshy man, with a red waistcoat and long, black mustache. The waistcoat and mustache were the two most noticeable things about him. He sat on a little campstool while he played.
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