The Mystery at Dark Cedars

Оглавление

Lavell Edith. The Mystery at Dark Cedars

CHAPTER I. The House of Mystery

CHAPTER II. The Robbery

CHAPTER III. Suspects

CHAPTER IV. Interviewing Hannah

CHAPTER V. The Stolen Treasure

CHAPTER VI. A Wild Ride

CHAPTER VII “Hands Up!”

CHAPTER VIII. A Confession

CHAPTER IX. The Fifty-Dollar Bill

CHAPTER X. Night at Dark Cedars

CHAPTER XI. The Picnic

CHAPTER XII. Bound and Gagged

CHAPTER XIII. Detective Work

Chapter XIV. Bad News

CHAPTER XV. An Alibi

Chapter XVI. Spreading the Net

CHAPTER XVII. The Empty House

CHAPTER XVIII. Found!

CHAPTER XIX. Conclusion

Отрывок из книги

“Be quiet, Silky! What’s the matter with you? You don’t usually bark like common dogs over nothing!”

The brown spaniel stopped under a maple tree and wagged his tail forlornly, looking pleadingly into his mistress’s eyes, as if he were trying to tell her that he wasn’t just making a fuss over nothing.

.....

“You really mean that?” demanded Miss Grant, in obvious relief. She would save two cents! She had meant to give each girl a whole penny!

“Tell me your names, then,” she continued, “and where you live. I might want to call on you for help sometime. I can’t trust my niece as far as my nose, and my servants are both old.” Mary Louise chuckled. So there was a mystery in this house! A lurking danger that Miss Grant and her niece both feared! And she and Jane were being drawn into it.

.....