The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island

Outdoor Girls on Pine Island, by Laura Lee Hope

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Title: The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island Or, A Cave and What It Contained
Author: Laura Lee Hope
Release Date: September 16, 2006 [EBook #19294]
Language: English
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The Outdoor Girls On Pine Island
OR
A CAVE AND WHAT IT CONTAINED
BY LAURA LEE HOPE
AUTHOR OF "THE OUTDOOR GIRLS OF DEEPDALE," "THE MOVING PICTURE GIRLS," "THE BOBBSEY TWINS," "BUNNY BROWN AND HIS SISTER SUE," 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 OUTDOOR GIRLS ON PINE ISLAND
=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 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 THE BOBBSEY TWINS AT HOME
GROSSET & DUNLAP, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY GROSSET & DUNLAP
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THE OUTDOOR GIRLS ON PINE ISLAND

[Illustration: THEIR CLOTHES WERE PICTURESQUE AND EACH ONE CARRIED A HUGE BUNDLE.
The Outdoor Girls on Pine Island. Frontispiece (Page 172)]

CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I THE RUNAWAY CAR 1
II A LUCKY ESCAPE 8
III FORTUNES 14
IV THE GYPSY ENCAMPMENT 23
V THIEVES IN DEEPDALE 32
VI A WONDERFUL OUTING 41
VII CLOSED FOR REPAIRS 50
VIII THE JET NECKLACE REAPPEARS 60
IX PINE ISLAND AT LAST 70
X BRIGHT AND EARLY 79
XI A JOLLY TRIP 88
XII "WHERE THERE IS SMOKE----" 96
XIII THE GATHERING OF THE CLANS 105
XIV A VICTORY FOR BETTY 113
XV A SPLENDID CATCH 120
XVI NOT A MOMENT TOO SOON 129
XVII BENEATH THE MOON 141
XVIII WATER SPRITES 151
XIX A MARVELOUS DISCOVERY 160
XX DANGEROUS VISITORS 171
XXI THE LOST TRAIL 179
XXII MOLLIE WINS 191
XXIII HIDDEN TREASURE 202
XXIV LYING IN WAIT 212
XXV GLORIOUS NEWS 221

THE OUTDOOR GIRLS ON PINE ISLAND
CHAPTER I
THE RUNAWAY CAR
"The boys will be here in five minutes!" cried Mollie Billette, bursting in upon her friend, dark hair flying and eyes alight. "You'd better get on your hat."
"What boys and why the hat?" returned Grace Ford who, pretty and graceful, as always, was provokingly calm.
"I'll answer any and everything if you will only get ready. Oh, have you got to go upstairs? Hurry then," and Mollie swung her feet impatiently as Grace detached herself from the great chair slowly and gracefully and started out into the hall.
"If you will come upstairs with me, Mollie," Grace suggested, "perhaps you will deign to tell me why you rush in here like a whirlwind and insist on my putting on my hat to go goodness knows where."
"Oh, all right, if you will only hurry," cried Mollie in desperation, and jumping from her chair she propelled her friend in most undignified haste up the broad stairway--Grace protesting at every step.
"Here's your coat. Now don't talk--act!" Mollie was commanding when Grace took her firmly by her two shoulders and backed her up against the wall.
"Now listen here, young lady," she said, looking sternly down into her friend's laughing eyes. "It's my turn to talk. I refuse to budge another step until you have explained, to my perfect satisfaction, the cause of all this rush."
"Well, since you feel that way about it," laughed Mollie, "suppose you let me--sit down."
"Will you tell me about it if I let you go? Promise!"
"Uh-huh," said Mollie, and so she was released. "There isn't much to tell anyway," she went on. "Betty and I met Frank Haley and Will a few minutes ago and Frank happened to remark that it was a splendid day for an auto ride. We agreed with him--that's all."
"Fine--but where's Betty?" and Grace adjusted her tiny toque with care before the huge mirror.
"Oh, she's coming, just as soon as she lets her mother know where she's off to. We wanted Amy to go along too--stopped in there on the way down--but Mrs. Stonington isn't feeling well and Amy thought she ought to stay with her."
"I'm sorry for that. But would there have been