Meg of Mystery Mountain
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North Grace May. Meg of Mystery Mountain
CHAPTER I. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL GIRL
CHAPTER II. THE MOST SELFISH GIRL
CHAPTER III. FACING HARD TRUTHS
CHAPTER IV. A SAD HOMECOMING
CHAPTER V. JANE’S SMALL BROTHER
CHAPTER VI. JANE’S CHOICE
CHAPTER VII. GERRY’S SURPRISE
CHAPTER VIII. ALL ABOARD
CHAPTER IX. TELEGRAMS
CHAPTER X. A CATTLE-MAN FRIEND
CHAPTER XI. REDFORDS
CHAPTER XII. THE ABBOTT CABIN
CHAPTER XIII. TWO LITTLE COOKS
CHAPTER XIV. FRETFUL JANE
CHAPTER XV. MEG HEGER
CHAPTER XVI. THE TRAPPER’S CABIN
CHAPTER XVII. QUEER KITTENS
CHAPTER XVIII. A YOUNG OVERSEER
CHAPTER XIX. A NEW COOK
CHAPTER XX. MEG AS SCHOOL-MISTRESS
CHAPTER XXI. MEG AS BENEFACTRESS
CHAPTER XXII. MEG’S CONFIDENCE
CHAPTER XXIII. JANE HUMILIATED
CHAPTER XXIV. JULIE AND GERALD LOST
CHAPTER XXV. JANE’S RESOLVE
CHAPTER XXVI. A RECONCILIATION
CHAPTER XXVII. THE GREEN HILLS RANCH
CHAPTER XXVIII. OLD FRIENDS
CHAPTER XXIX. THE BARBEQUE
CHAPTER XXX. JEAN SAWYER’S SECRET
CHAPTER XXXI. AN UNCANNY EXPERIENCE
CHAPTER XXXII. HUNTING FOR THE BOX
CHAPTER XXXIII. JANE’S BIRTHDAY
CHAPTER XXXIV. SECRETS
CHAPTER XXXV. JANE AND JEAN
CHAPTER XXXVI. MYSTERIES HALF SOLVED
CHAPTER XXXVII. THE MYSTERY SOLVED
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The girls who had been inseparable friends during the four years at the fashionable Highacres Seminary parted at the Battery to go in as many different directions.
Marion Starr’s home was far up on Riverside Drive, while Barbara Morris’ millionaire father had an extensive estate on Long Island. Esther Ballard, the only daughter of devoted parents, resided in the house of her grandfather, Colonel Ballard, on Washington Square, while Jane Abbott’s family of four lived in the same rambling, picturesque wooden house that Mr. Abbott’s father had built for his bride long before his name had become so well known on Wall Street. Edgemere, a pretty little town among the Jersey hills, Mr. Abbott deemed a good place to bring up his younger girl and boy, and so, although Jane often pleaded that they move to a more fashionable suburb, in Edgemere they had remained. Nor would her father tear down the old home to replace it with one finer, for his beloved wife, who had died at the birth of little Julie, had planned it and had chosen all of the furnishings. “Some day you will have a home of your own, Jane,” he had told his proud older daughter, “and then you may have it as fine as you wish.”
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The man sank down in his chair again and took from his pocket a telegram. “That’s what I went after, mother,” he told her. “I wired Bethel for one more pass, as I had a small son who also wished to go West, and this is his answer:
“‘Glad indeed to accommodate you, Dan, and I’m sending one more, just for good measure. Happened to recall that you have four children. Let me do something else for you, old man, if I can.’”
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