The Carter Girls' Week-End Camp

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Speed Nell. The Carter Girls' Week-End Camp

CHAPTER I. A LETTER

CHAPTER II. THE RETURN

CHAPTER III. THE PROBLEM

CHAPTER IV. ROBERT CARTER’S ASTONISHING GIRLS

CHAPTER V. THE TUCKERS

CHAPTER VI. POSTPRANDIAL CONVERSATIONS

CHAPTER VII. THE STORM

CHAPTER VIII. THE DAMAGE DONE

CHAPTER IX. MR. MACHIAVELLI TUCKER

CHAPTER X. MR. HIRAM G. PARKER

CHAPTER XI. THE BIRD

CHAPTER XII. PLEASE REMIT

CHAPTER XIII. TEAKETTLE

CHAPTER XIV. THE FORAGERS

CHAPTER XV. BABES IN THE WOOD

CHAPTER XVI. TOM TIT

CHAPTER XVII. THE SPRING-KEEPER

CHAPTER XVIII. MORE FINDS

CHAPTER XIX. A DISCUSSION

CHAPTER XX. DR. WRIGHT TO THE RESCUE

CHAPTER XXI. LETTERS

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“Oh, Douglas, I’m all of a tremble!” declared Helen Carter, as she knotted her jaunty scarlet tie and settled her gray felt hat at exactly the proper angle. “To think that they are really coming back!”

“I can hardly believe it. The time has gone quickly and still it seems somehow as though we had been living in this camp for ages. I am afraid it will go hard with the poor little mother.”

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The conversation was interrupted by Lucy, who was always eager to find out what Helen was doing so she could do it too. When she saw her sister’s tear-stained countenance she bitterly regretted her dry eyes but cry she could not, especially as she did not see anything to cry about.

Mrs. Carter, meanwhile, after flitting from daughter to daughter, had cried out: “But Bobby! Where is my precious Bobby?”

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