Mystery Stories for Girls
Witches Cove
By
ROY J. SNELL
The Reilly & Lee Co.
Chicago New York
Printed in the United States of America
Copyright, 1928
by
The Reilly & Lee Co.
All Rights Reserved
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER PAGE
- I Mysteries of the Night 11
- II Sculling in the Night 23
- III In the Dungeon 34
- IV The Face in the Fire 42
- V Three Gray Witches 58
- VI Off for Further Adventure 80
- VII Some Lobsters 84
- VIII From Out the Fog 109
- IX Off Black Head 121
- X The Tilting Floor 137
- XI The Wavering Red Light 149
- XII The Little Man of Witches Cove 170
- XIII Under Fire 178
- XIV The Passing of Black Gull 193
- XV The Searching Pencil of Light 200
- XVI The Old Fort 212
- XVII Secrets Told 221
- XVIII Kidnapped 230
- XIX A Fire on the Beach 241
- XX The Chase 245
- XXI On Air and Sea 254
- XXII The Story Told 261
WITCHES COVE
CHAPTER I
MYSTERIES OF THE NIGHT
It was night on Casco Bay off the coast ofMaine. There was no moon. Stars were hiddenby a fine haze. The distant harbor lightsof Portland, eight of them, gleaming faintlyin pairs like yellow cat’s eyes, served only tointensify the blackness of the water and thenight.
Ruth Bracket’s arms moved backward andforward in rhythmic motion. She was rowing,yet no sound came from her oarlocks. Oarsand oarlocks were padded. She liked it bestthat way. Why? Mystery—that magic word“mystery.” How she loved it!
In the stern of the little punt sat slim, black-haired,dark-eyed Betty Bronson, a city girlfrom the heart of America who was enjoyingher first summer on the coast of Maine.
Betty, too, loved mystery. And into her lifeand that of her stout seashore girl companion