The Motor Girls at Lookout Beach
OR
In Quest of the Runaways
Margaret Penrose
1911
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER I—SUMMER PLANS
- CHAPTER II—AT THE STRAWBERRY PATCH
- CHAPTER III—THE STRIKE
- CHAPTER IV—ARBITRATION
- CHAPTER V—TOO CONFIDENT
- CHAPTER VI—CORA’S QUEER PLIGHT
- CHAPTER VII—THE CLUE AT THE SPRING HOUSE
- CHAPTER VIII—A STARTLING DISCOVERY
- CHAPTER IX—COMPLICATIONS
- CHAPTER X—ALMOST—BUT NOT QUITE
- CHAPTER XI—ANDY’S WARNING
- CHAPTER XII—THE “UNPLANNED” PLANS
- CHAPTER XIII—GOING AND COMING
- CHAPTER XIV—LOST ON THE ROAD
- CHAPTER XV—BOYS TO THE RESCUE
- CHAPTER XVI—THE SHADOW IN THE HEDGE
- CHAPTER XVII—AT WAYSIDE INN
- CHAPTER XVIII—LOOKOUT BEACH
- CHAPTER XIX—THE MOVING PICTURE “MOVED”
- CHAPTER XX—THE GAIETY OF GOING
- CHAPTER XXI—BOYS AND GIRLS
- CHAPTER XXII—A STRUGGLE WITH THE WAVES
- CHAPTER XXIII—THE EXCURSION
- CHAPTER XXIV—THE TWO ORPHANS
- CHAPTER XXV—THE TRUTH! THE WHOLE TRUTH!
CHAPTER I—SUMMER PLANS
Bess Robinson was so filled with enthusiasm that her sister Belle declared there was serious danger of “blowing-up,” unless there was some repression. Belle herself might be equally enthusiastic, but she had a way of restraining herself, while Bess just delighted in the “utmost” of everything. The two sisters were talking on the side porch of their handsome home in Chelton, a New England town, located on the Chelton river. It was a beautiful day, late in spring.
“Well, have you sufficiently quieted down, Bess?” asked Belle, after a pause, which succeeded the more quiet girl’s attempt to curb her sister’s enthusiasm—a pause that was filled with just the hint of pique.
“Quieted down? I should think any one would quiet down after such a call-down as you gave me, if you will allow the use of such slang in your presence, Mi