Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp

Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp, by Alice B.

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Title: Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp
Author: Alice B. Emerson
Release Date: December 31, 2004 [eBook #14546]
Language: English
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BETTY GORDON AT MOUNTAIN CAMP
Or, The Mystery of Ida Bellethorne
by
ALICE B. EMERSON
Author of Betty Gordon at Bramble Farm, Betty Gordon at Boarding School, "Ruth Fielding Series," etc.
Illustrated
New York Cupples & Leon Company Publishers

Books for Girls By ALICE B. EMERSON 12mo. Cloth. Illustrated
BETTY GORDON SERIES
BETTY GORDON AT BRAMBLE FARM
BETTY GORDON IN WASHINGTON
BETTY GORDON IN THE LAND OF OIL
BETTY GORDON AT BOARDING SCHOOL
BETTY GORDON AT MOUNTAIN CAMP
RUTH FIELDING SERIES
RUTH FIELDING OF THE RED MILL
RUTH FIELDING AT BRIARWOOD HALL
RUTH FIELDING AT SNOW CAMP
RUTH FIELDING AT LIGHTHOUSE POINT
RUTH FIELDING AT SILVER RANCH
RUTH FIELDING ON CLIFF ISLAND
RUTH FIELDING AT SUNRISE FARM
RUTH FIELDING AND THE GYPSIES
RUTH FIELDING IN MOVING PICTURES
RUTH FIELDING DOWN IN DIXIE
RUTH FIELDING AT COLLEGE
RUTH FIELDING IN THE SADDLE
RUTH FIELDING IN THE RED CROSS
RUTH FIELDING AT THE WAR FRONT
RUTH FIELDING HOMEWARD BOUND
RUTH FIELDING DOWN EAST
RUTH FIELDING IN THE GREAT NORTH-WEST
RUTH FIELDING ON THE ST. LAWRENCE
Cupples & Leon Co., Publishers, New York 1922

[Illustration: THE WHOLE PARTY TURNED OUT GAILY. "Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp."]

CONTENTS
I THE ORANGE SILK OVER-BLOUSE
II THE FRUITS OF TANTALUS
III OFF FOR A GALLOP
IV A SECOND IDA BELLETHORNE
V MEASLES
VI A DISAPPEARANCE
VII ALL MRS. STAPLES COULD SAY
VIII UNCLE DICK MUST BE TOLD
IX THE LIVE WIRE OCTETTE
X BEAUTIFUL SNOW
XI STALLED, AND WITHOUT A DOCTOR
XII THE TUNNEL
XIII AN ALARM
XIV THE MOUNTAIN HUT
XV THE LOST GIRL
XVI THE CAMP ON THE OVERLOOK
XVII OFF ON SNOWSHOES
XVIII GREAT EXCITEMENT
XIX THE EMERGENCY
XX BETTY'S RIDE
XXI BETTY COMES THROUGH
XXII ON THE BRINK OF DISCOVERY
XXIII CAN IT BE DONE?
XXIV TWENTY MILES OF GRADE
XXV ON THE DECK OF THE SAN SALVADOR
CHAPTER I
THE ORANGE SILK OVER-BLOUSE
"This doesn't look like the street I came up through!" exclaimed Betty Gordon. "These funny streets, with their dear old-fashioned houses, all seem, so much alike! And if there are any names stuck up at the corners they must hide around behind the post when I come by like squirrels in the woods.
"I declare, there is a queer little shop stuck right in there between two of those refined-looking, if poverty-stricken, boarding-houses. Dear me! how many come-down-in-the-world families have to take 'paying guests' to help out. Not like the Peabodys, but really needy people. What is it Bobby calls 'em? 'P.G.s'--'paying guests.'
"I was a paying guest at Bramble Farm," ruminated Betty, still staring at the little shop and the houses that flanked it on either side. "And I certainly had a hard time there. Bobby says that these people in Georgetown are the remains of Southern aristocracy that were cast up on this beach as long ago as the Civil War. Unlike the castaways on cannibal islands that we read about, Bobby says these castaways live off the 'P.G.s'--and that's what Joseph Peabody tried to do! He tried to live off me. There! I knew he was a cannibal.
"Oh! Isn't that sweet?"
Her sudden cry had no reference to the army of boarding-house keepers in the neighborhood, nor to any signpost that pointed the way back to the little square where the soldiers' monument stood and where Betty was to meet Carter, the Littells' chauffeur, and the big limousine. For she was still staring at the window of the little shop.
"What a lovely orange color! And that starburst pattern on the front! It's lovely! What a surprising thing to see in a little neighborhood store like this. I'm going to buy it if it fits me and I've money enough left in my purse."
Impetuous as usual, Betty Gordon marched at once to the door of the little side-street shop. The most famous of such neighborhood shops, as described by Hawthorne, Betty knew all about. She had studied it in her English readings at Shadyside only the previous term. But there was no Gingerbread Man in this shop window!
In the middle of the display window, which was divided into four not very large panes, was arranged on a cross of bright metal a knitted over-blouse of the very newest burnt orange shade. The work was exquisitely done, as Betty could see even from outside the shop, and she did hope it would fit her.
On pushing open the door a silvery bell--not an annoying, jangling bell--played a very lively tune to attract the attention of a girl who sat at the back of the shop, her head bent close above the