Transcriber's Notes:
Obvious punctuation errors repaired.
[Page 122]: Author says that the children ran through the streets of Lakeport. However they live in Bellemere, see [Page 15]. The children in one of her other series, The Bobbsey Twins, live in Lakeport. This mistake was retained.
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