“WHAT IS THAT?” WHISPERED SOPHY SHARPLY,
AND PAM’S HEART GAVE A SUDDEN LEAP


A

Canadian Farm Mystery

Or, Pam the Pioneer

BY

BESSIE MARCHANT

Author of “The Unknown Island”

“Joyce Harrington’s Trust”

“A Girl and a Caravan”

“Molly Angel’s Adventures”

&c. &c.

Illustrated by Cyrus Cuneo

BLACKIE & SON LIMITED

LONDON AND GLASGOW


Zenith Library

BOYS

In the Great White Land. Gordon Stables.

The Disputed V.C. Frederick P. Gibbon.

The First Mate. Harry Collingwood.

The Boy Castaways. H. Taprell Dorling.

“Quills.” Walter C. Rhoades.

GIRLS

A Canadian Farm Mystery. Bessie Marchant.

The Youngest Sister. Bessie Marchant.

A Princess of Servia. Bessie Marchant.

A True Cornish Maid. G. Norway.

Meriel’s Career. Mary B. Whiting.

Printed in Great Britain by Blackie & Son, Ltd., Glasgow


Contents

[I.] Her Great Idea

[II.] Business Enterprise

[III.] The Surprise Party

[IV.] What They Found

[V.] The Next Day

[VI.] Where has He Gone?

[VII.] Searching

[VIII.] The First Snow

[IX.] Making the Best of It

[X.] Someone’s Desperate Plight

[XI.] Who was It?

[XII.] Sugaring

[XIII.] Just a Doubt!

[XIV.] From an Unexpected Quarter

[XV.] Pam’s Big Adventure

[XVI.] Why did He Go?

[XVII.] What Reggie Suspects

[XVIII.] Met on the Trail

[XIX.] The Stranger’s Errand

[XX.] Wedding Plans

[XXI.] How it was Done

[XXII.] Good News

[XXIII.] The Mystery Cleared

[XXIV.] The End


Illustrations

[I. ]“What is that?” whispered Sophy sharply,

and Pam’s heart gave a sudden leap

[II. ]The dog and the unknown fury were rolling

over in the deadliest of combats

[III. ]Pam was dragged up and tugged here and

pulled there


A Canadian Farm Mystery

Or, Pam the Pioneer