The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car

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Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car, by Laura Lee Hope

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Title: The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car The Haunted Mansion of Shadow Valley
Author: Laura Lee Hope
Release Date: October 17, 2006 [EBook #19561]
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The Outdoor Girls In A Motor Car
OR
THE HAUNTED MANSION OF SHADOW VALLEY
BY LAURA LEE HOPE
AUTHOR OF "THE OUTDOOR GIRLS OF DEEPDALE," "THE OUTDOOR GIRLS AT RAINBOW LAKE," "THE BOBBSEY TWINS," "THE BOBBSEY TWINS IN THE COUNTRY," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS
Made in the United States of America

BOOKS FOR GIRLS
BY LAURA LEE HOPE
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12mo. Cloth. Illustrated. Price per volume, 50 cents, postpaid.
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=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 BOBBSEY TWINS BOOKS=
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
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GROSSET & DUNLAP, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY GROSSET & DUNLAP.
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THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN A MOTOR CAR.
[Illustration: "TOPPLED FROM THE TREE, ALMOST IN FRONT OF THE CAR."
The Outdoor Girls in a Motor Car Frontispiece (Page 13)]

CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I OUT OF A TREE 1
II A STRANGE GIRL 14
III STRANGELY MISSING 24
IV THE QUEER PEDDLER 31
V PAUL AT THE WHEEL 41
VI A TOUR PROPOSED 48
VII MR. LAGG'S OFFER 56
VIII IN THE MUD 68
IX IN SHADOW VALLEY 77
X OFF ON THE TOUR 84
XI A TRACE OF THE GIRL 93
XII A DISABLED CAR 104
XIII THE STORM 110
XIV AT THE HAUNTED HOUSE 121
XV QUEER MANIFESTATIONS 129
XVI "SO YOU HAVE COME BACK!" 138
XVII CONSTERNATION 147
XVIII THE PRISONER 153
XIX MYSTIFIED 160
XX SEEKING THE GHOST 168
XXI THE MISSING GIRL 177
XXII A SWINDLED FARMER 184
XXIII "THAT'S THE MAN!" 195
XXIV THE FAKER CAUGHT 199
XXV EXPLANATIONS 204

THE OUTDOOR GIRLS IN A MOTOR CAR
CHAPTER I
OUT OF A TREE
"Come on, girls, the car is here, and this time I'm going to run it myself!"
"You never are, Mollie Billette!" exclaimed Grace Ford, as, with three companions, she hurried to the window of the library of the Billette home, and looked out toward the street, up which was coming a luxurious touring car of the latest model.
"Aren't you afraid?" asked Amy Stonington, as she looked admiringly at Mollie, whose cheeks were flushed with excitement.
"Oh, it simply gives me the creeps to think about it!" added Grace.
"I don't see why," spoke Mollie, as the car, in charge of a demonstrator, came to a stop in front of her house. "I've taken enough lessons, the garage man says; I have my license, and why shouldn't I run my car? Are you afraid to come with me?"
"No--no, it isn't exactly that," said Amy, slowly as she fastened the strings of her new motoring hood--all the girls had them, and very becoming they were. "It isn't exactly that, Mollie, but you know----"
"If you weren't afraid to go with Betty in her motor boat, I don't see why you should be afraid to come with me in the car," went on Mollie. "Oh, what did I do with my goggles?" she asked as she hurriedly looked about the room, lifting up a pile of books and papers on a table. "I know I had them, and----"
"Look!" exclaimed Betty Nelson with a laugh. "Dodo and Paul are trying to pull them apart. I suppose they think the goggles are big enough for two," and she pointed to where the twins, Mollie's little brother and sister, were seated on the velvety lawn, both having hold of a new pair of auto goggles, and gravely trying to separate the two eye pieces.
"The little rascals!" cried Mollie, though she, too had to join in the laughter of her chums. "Paul!" she called. "Dodo! Come here this instant with my goggles!"
The children looked up, their dispute forgotten.
"Us hasn't any doddles--us got tecticals!" exclaimed Paul.
"Well, those are sister's spectacles--to wear in the auto so the dust won't get in her eyes," explained Mollie, as she approached the twins, "Give them to sister."
"Oo et us wide in tar us dive um to oo," stipulated Dodo, holding the goggles behind her back.
"Not to-day, pet," said Mollie, sweetly--compromisingly.
Dodo arose, and backed away, limping slightly, for she was not quite recovered from