Knock Three Times!
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Marion St. John Webb. Knock Three Times!
CHAPTER I. Aunt Phœbe sends a Birthday Present
CHAPTER II. The Adventure Begins
CHAPTER III. The Other Side of the Tree
CHAPTER IV. Why Old Nancy Slept through the Sunset Hour
CHAPTER V. Which Explains who is Inside the Grey Pumpkin
CHAPTER VI. The Black Leaf
CHAPTER VII. Glan Opens the Gate in the Nick of Time
CHAPTER VIII. Aunt Janet Puts on her Best Bonnet
CHAPTER IX. Planning the Search
CHAPTER X. Some One Meets Jack and Molly in the Third Green Lane
CHAPTER XI. Trapped
CHAPTER XII. The Goblin’s Heath
CHAPTER XIII. Timothy Gives Them a Clue
CHAPTER XIV. Mr Papingay’s House in the Orange Wood
CHAPTER XV. Jack’s Misfortune
CHAPTER XVI. Molly Accepts a Present
CHAPTER XVII. A Warning
CHAPTER XVIII. Molly Comes to Lake Desolate
CHAPTER XIX. Molly Looks Through Miss Lydia’s Window
CHAPTER XX. What Happened Outside Old Nancy’s Cottage
CHAPTER XXI. The Grey Pumpkin’s Fate
CHAPTER XXII. The Impossible World Again
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WHEN Molly went up to bed that night she took the pincushion with her and placed it on the dressing-table, and tried her best to think that it looked nice. “It really will be useful,” she told herself, and to prove this she picked up a long pin and stuck it into the pumpkin pincushion, though with a little more violence than was necessary. Then she ran across the room and tumbled into bed.
It was a beautiful moonlight night, and the moonbeams streaming into the room made it almost as light as day. Molly lay there snug, drowsily planning out lovely rides that she and Jack would go as soon as they had both learnt how to manage their cycles; the thought of her bicycle sent a warm thrill through her heart and a smile of content hovering about her mouth.
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There was a low, creaking sound, and the side of the tree swung outward like a door; and the Pumpkin passed in.
The door began slowly to close again. Jack and Molly looked at each other. What should they do? They both felt it was now or never.
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