Grace Harlowes Overland Riders Among the Kentucky Mountaineers

Grace Harlowe's Overland
Riders Among the
by Jessie
Graham Flower

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GRACE HARLOWE'S OVERLAND RIDERS AMONG THE
KENTUCKY MOUNTAINEERS
by
JESSIE GRAHAM FLOWER, A. M.
Illustrated

The Saalfield Publishing Company Akron, Ohio New York Made in U.
S. A. Copyright MCMXXI by The Saalfield Publishing Company

[Illustration: "It's Grace!" Frontispiece.]

CONTENTS
PAGE
CHAPTER I

--EXCITEMENT IN THE FOOTHILLS 11
Washington Washington's music is rudely interrupted. The revenge of
an outraged mule. "Why dat fool mule kick me?" Hippy airs his
knowledge of woodcraft. "Laundry" puts the Overland camp in an
uproar.
CHAPTER II
--THE MYSTERY MAN 25
"Dis am de sebbenth yeah." The Spectacle Man introduces himself. The
voice from the wilderness. The visitor gives the Overland Riders a
word of advice. Mystified by an appearance and a disappearance.
CHAPTER III
--HIPPY BOUNCES THE "SHEREEF" 32
Overlanders ordered to leave the mountains at once. Hippy Wingate's
smile grows into a frown. A bullet that missed its mark. Grace Harlowe
steps on Washington's neck and starts an uproar. A mysterious shot
wings the mountaineer.
CHAPTER IV
--FOOTPRINTS IN THE MOSS 42
The Mystery Man slips away unobserved. The Overlanders led to
wonder. Tom Gray utters a warning. Washington gets another scare.
The prowler leaves a trail. Revolver shots stir the Overland Riders to
action. "That's Grace's weapon!" cries Lieutenant Wingate.
CHAPTER V
--THE WAY IS BARRED 52
"Halt! Who comes?" Grace Harlowe slightly wounded. Hippy, in

search of her, loses himself. Grace tells of her duel in the bush. The
Overlanders are sternly halted and ordered to go back. A shot and a
command. Hippy's hat is shot off.
CHAPTER VI
--HIPPY MYSTERIOUSLY DISAPPEARS 61
Overlanders throw up their hands. Nora tweaks a mountaineer's nose,
and boxes his ears. Tables turned on a mountain ruffian. A night
prowler frightened away by a shot. "Hurry, Grace! Hippy has gone!"
cries Elfreda Briggs in a thrilling voice.
CHAPTER VII
--A VOICE FROM THE SHADOWS 74
The search for Hippy Wingate is begun. Significant trail-signs are
discovered. Grace Harlowe makes a find. "Hippy's hat!" gasps Miss
Briggs. A mysterious message is tossed into the Overland camp at night.
The girls are encouraged by a comforting word.
CHAPTER VIII
--A FRIEND IN NEED 87
Hippy, awakening, finds himself a captive. A grilling ride on horseback.
Captors question and threaten their prisoner. Sight of food makes
Hippy sad. "Don't make a sound, Lieutenant," warns a friendly voice.
"There's a price on your head!"
CHAPTER IX
--THE POWER OF MIND 99
"I didn't con-centrate for nothing," declares Emma Dean. Grace finds
and loses the trail. Elfreda fires at a noise. "Cut the gun!" howls Hippy
Wingate. "The mountaineers are after us!" Lieutenant Wingate's rescuer

advises the party to move at once.
CHAPTER X
--"THEY'VE GOT THE BOY!" 107
"Two skips an' er jump" to their destination. Washington's howls
arouse the Overland camp. The colored boy suddenly disappears. The
night vigil of the Overland Riders is broken by a shock.
CHAPTER XI
--"A MARKED MAN" 114
"Hold your fire!" orders Lieutenant Wingate. Washington Washington
flounders into camp. "All this scare for a black nightmare," groans
Emma. The "rural free delivery man" makes an early call. Another
mystery for the Overland Riders to solve.
CHAPTER XII
--A MOUNTAIN MYSTERY 121
A message and a postscript. Miss Briggs says she will show her
companions. Camp is made on the Thompson farm. Julie calls to look
the Overlanders over. Invited to a mountain dance. Hippy makes a
trouble-forecast.
CHAPTER XIII
--THREE MEN IN THE CORNFIELD 132
Washington says he "sawed" a man. Jeremiah makes a call on the
Overland camp. How the Spectacle Man "fits" glasses. The "benefactor
of all mankind" suddenly changes his mind. "Two dollars, please."
CHAPTER XIV

--ELFREDA DISTINGUISHES HERSELF 140
The Mystery Man makes a pun. Jeremiah "rolls" out of camp. Elfreda
discovers a bear. "He is eating up our food." With the bear's assistance
Miss Briggs succeeds in lassoing him. The Overland camp