Ruth Fielding Homeward Bound
Printed in U. S. A.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Sweet Briars and Sour Pickles | [1] |
| II. | The Wild Girl | [12] |
| III. | Sadie Raby’s Story | [23] |
| IV. | “Them Perkinses” | [34] |
| V. | “The Tramping Girl” | [45] |
| VI. | Seeking the Trail | [53] |
| VII. | What Tom Cameron Saw | [61] |
| VIII. | Traveling Toward Sunrise Farm | [68] |
| IX. | The Sunrise Coach | [77] |
| X. | “Touch and Go” | [85] |
| XI. | Tobogganing in June | [91] |
| XII. | A Number of Introductions | [100] |
| XIII. | The Terrible Twins | [108] |
| XIV. | “Why! Of Course!” | [114] |
| XV. | The Tempest | [120] |
| XVI. | The Runaway | [128] |
| XVII. | The Black Douglass | [135] |
| XVIII. | Sundry Plans | [143] |
| XIX. | A Safe and Sane Fourth? | [151] |
| XX. | The Raby Romance | [158] |
| XXI. | A Very Busy Time | [166] |
| XXII. | The Terrible Twins on the Rampage | [173] |
| XXIII. | Lost | [180] |
| XXIV. | “So That’s All Right” | [189] |
| XXV. | The Orphans’ Fortune | [198] |
Ruth Fielding at Sunrise Farm
CHAPTER I—SWEET BRIARS AND SOUR PICKLES
The single gas jet burning at the end of the corridor was so dim and made so flickering a light that it added more to the shadows of the passage than it provided illumination. It was hard to discover which were realities and which shadows in the long gallery.
Not a ray of light appeared at any of the transoms over the dormitory doors; yet that might not mean that there were no lights burning within the duo and quartette rooms in the East Dormitory of Briarwood Hall. There were ways of shrouding the telltale transoms and—without doubt—the members of the advanced junior classes had learned such little tricks of the trade of being a schoolgirl.