The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point

The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point, by Laura

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Title: The Outdoor Girls at Bluff Point Or a Wreck and a Rescue
Author: Laura Lee Hope

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THE OUTDOOR GIRLS AT BLUFF POINT
Or
A Wreck and a Rescue
by
LAURA LEE HOPE
Author of "The Outdoor Girls of Deepdale," "The Moving Picture Girls," "The Bobbsey Twins," "Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue," "Six Little Bunkers at Grandma Bell's," Etc.
Illustrated

New York Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers Made in the United States of America
* * * * *
BOOKS FOR GIRLS
BY LAURA LEE HOPE
12mo. Cloth. Illustrated.
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS SERIES
THE OUTDOOR GIRLS OF DEEPDALE THE OUTDOOR GIRLS AT RAINBOW LAKE THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN A MOTOR CAR THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN A WINTER CAMP THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN FLORIDA THE OUTDOOR GIRLS AT OCEAN VIEW THE OUTDOOR GIRLS ON PINE ISLAND THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN ARMY SERVICE THE OUTDOOR GIRLS AT THE HOSTESS HOUSE THE OUTDOOR GIRLS AT BLUFF POINT
THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS SERIES
THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS AT OAK FARM THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS SNOWBOUND THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS UNDER THE PALMS THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS AT ROCKY RANCH THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS AT SEA THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS IN WAR PLAYS
THE BOBBSEY TWINS SERIES
(Twelve Titles)
THE BUNNY BROWN SERIES
(Eight Titles)
SIX LITTLE BUNKERS SERIES
(Five Titles)
GROSSET & DUNLAP, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK
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Copyright, 1920, By Grosset & Dunlap

THE OUTDOOR GIRLS AT BLUFF POINT

CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I TO THE FRONT 1
II BAD NEWS 11
III MAKING PLANS 17
IV GRACE SURPRISES HER CHUMS 27
V A PROBLEM SOLVED 37
VI LIFE AND DEATH 47
VII THE RACE 56
VIII RED RAGS 65
IX THUNDER AND MUD 75
X THE KNIGHT OF THE WAYSIDE 85
XI MYSTERY 95
XII NEARLY AN ACCIDENT 104
XIII OUTWITTING A CRANK 114
XIV BLUFF POINT AT LAST 123
XV THE TELEGRAM 132
XVI THE SHADOW OF DISASTER 142
XVII JOE BARNES AGAIN 152
XVIII SERIOUSLY WOUNDED 162
XIX BETTY CONFESSES 170
XX MISSING 180
XXI A NARROW ESCAPE 187
XXII DARKNESS BEFORE THE DAWN 197
XXIII THE SHADOW LIFTS 207
XXIV HIS THREE SWEETHEARTS 217
XXV JOY 227

THE OUTDOOR GIRLS AT BLUFF POINT
CHAPTER I
TO THE FRONT
"I know it's utterly foolish and unreasonable," sighed Amy Blackford, laying down the novel she had been reading and looking wistfully out of the window, "but I simply can't help it."
"What's the matter?" asked Mollie Billette, raising her eyes reluctantly from a book she was devouring and looking vaguely at Amy's profile. "Did you say something?"
"No, she only spoke," drawled Grace Ford, extricating herself from a mass of bright-colored cushions on the divan, preparatory to joining in the conversation. "I ask you, Mollie, did you ever know Amy to say anything important?"
"Why yes, I have," said Mollie unexpectedly. "In fact, she is about the only one of us Outdoor Girls who ever does say anything important--except Betty, perhaps."
Amy withdrew her gaze from the landscape and looked at the speaker with a twinkle in her eyes.
"What will you have, Mollie?" she asked whimsically. "When you become complimentary, you are apt to rouse my suspicions."
"Well, whatever you were going to say, please say it, and let me get back to my book," returned Mollie, ignoring the imputation. "I was in the most interesting part--"
"Why, I'm just plain homesick," said Amy, adding quickly, as the girls looked at her in surprise. "For Camp Liberty and the Hostess House, you know. I miss the work and the long hours of entertaining and cheering people up. I feel," she looked around at them as though finding it hard to explain just what she meant, "sort of--lost."
The three chums, Mollie Billette, Grace Ford, and Amy Blackford were gathered in the comfortable library of Betty Nelson's home--Betty being the fourth of the merry quartette, dubbed the "Outdoor Girls" by the people of Deepdale, because of their love of the open and of outdoor sports.
The girls, as my old readers will doubtless remember, had helped establish a Hostess House at Camp Liberty, and since then had given all their strength and time and youthful enthusiasm to the great work of cheering our young fighters, entertaining their loved ones, and, in the end, sending them with fresh courage and happy memories to the "other side" for the great adventure.
And now the girls, completely worn out in their loving service to others,