The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View

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Outdoor Girls at Ocean View, by Laura Lee Hope

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Title: The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View Or, The Box That Was Found in the Sand
Author: Laura Lee Hope
Release Date: September 16, 2006 [EBook #19295]
Language: English
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The Outdoor Girls At Ocean View
OR
THE BOX THAT WAS FOUND IN THE SAND
BY LAURA LEE HOPE
AUTHOR OF "THE OUTDOOR GIRLS OF DEEPDALE," "THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS," "THE BOBBSEY TWINS," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS

BOOKS FOR GIRLS
BY LAURA LEE HOPE
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12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. Price per volume.
50 cents, postpaid.
=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 MOVING PICTURE GIRLS SERIES=
THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS AT OAK FARM THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS SNOW BOUND THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS UNDER THE PALMS THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS AT ROCKY RANCH THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS AT SEA
=THE BOBBSEY TWINS SERIES=
For Little Men and Women
THE BOBBSEY TWINS THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN THE COUNTRY THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT THE SEASHORE THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT SCHOOL THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT SNOW LODGE THE BOBBSEY TWINS ON A HOUSEBOAT THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT MEADOWBROOK
GROSSET & DUNLAP, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY
GROSSET & DUNLAP.
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THE OUTDOOR GIRLS AT OCEAN VIEW
[Illustration: MOLLIE BROUGHT UP OUT OF THE HOLE A CURIOUS IRON BOX.--Page 74.
The Outdoor Girls at Ocean View.]

CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I ANTICIPATIONS 1
II INTERRUPTIONS 9
III PREPARATIONS 17
IV OFF FOR OCEAN VIEW 26
V OLD TIN-BACK 36
VI THE BOYS 44
VII THE STORM 53
VIII THE MEN IN THE BOAT 61
IX THE BOX IN THE SAND 69
X CONJECTURES 75
XI THE CIPHER 81
XII THE FALSE BOTTOM 89
XIII THE DIAMOND TREASURE 95
XIV SEEKING CLUES 101
XV A NIGHT ALARM 109
XVI ON THE BEACH 118
XVII ANOTHER ALARM 126
XVIII ANXIOUS DAYS 135
XIX THE PICNIC 146
XX CAUGHT 154
XXI ON THE SCHOONER 163
XXII THE SEARCH 172
XXIII SMUGGLED DIAMONDS 181
XXIV TO THE RESCUE 190
XXV ALL'S WELL--CONCLUSION 199

THE OUTDOOR GIRLS AT OCEAN VIEW
CHAPTER I
ANTICIPATIONS
Three girls were strolling down the street, and, as on the occasion when the three fishermen once sailed out to sea, the sun was going down. The golden rays, slanting in from over the western hills that stood back of the little town of Deepdale, struck full in the faces of the maids as they turned a corner, and so bright was the glare that one of them--a tall, willowy lass, with a wealth of fluffy, light hair, turned aside with a cry of annoyance.
"Oh, why can't the sun be nice!" she exclaimed, half-petulantly.
"What do you want it to do, Grace?" asked a vivacious, dark-complexioned sprite next to the complaining one. "Go under a cloud just to suit you?"
"No, my dear, I'm not as fussy as that!"
"Indeed not!" chimed in the third member of the trio, a quiet girl, with thoughtful eyes. "What Grace wants is some nice young fellow to come along with an umbrella, hoist it over her, and invite her in to have--a chocolate soda!"
"Why, Amy Blackford! I'll never speak to you again!" gasped the accused one, blushing vividly, the more so as the rays of the setting sun fell upon her face. "All I said was----"
"Look!" suddenly interrupted the vivacious member of the small party--a party that attracted no little attention, for at the sight of the three pretty girls, strolling arm in arm down the main thoroughfare of the town, more than one person turned for a second look.
"Gracious! What is it?" demanded Grace. "Did you see--some one, Billy?"
"No--something," came the answer from the dark girl with the boyish name, and at a glance you could understand why she was called so. There was such a wholesome, frank and comrade-like quality about her, though she was not at all masculine, that "Billy" just suited.
"Look," she went on. "Isn't that a perfectly gorgeous display of chocolates!" and she indicated the window of a confectionery store just in front of them.
"Oh, I must have some of those!" cried Grace Ford. "Come on in, girls! I'll treat. They're those new bitter-sweet chocolates. I didn't know Borker kept them. I'm simply dying for some!" and with this rather exaggerated statement she fairly pulled her two chums after her into the store.
"Look!" Grace went on, pausing a moment when inside the shop to glance at the chocolate display in the show-window.