THE GIRLS OF HILLCREST FARM
“We’ll go to the old farm, and we’ll take boarders! We can fix the old place up, and, maybe, make money!”
The father of the two girls was broken down in health and a physician had recommended that he go to the country, where he could get plenty of fresh air and sunshine. An aunt owned an abandoned farm and she said the family could live on this and use the place as they pleased. It was great sport moving and getting settled, and the boarders offered one surprise after another. There was a mystery about the old farm, and a mystery concerning one of the boarders, and how the girls got to the bottom of affairs is told in detail in the story, which is called, “The Girls of Hillcrest Farm; Or, The Secret of the Rocks.”
It was great fun to move to the farm, and once the girls had the scare of their lives. And they attended a great “vendue” too.
“I just had to write that story–I couldn’t help it,” said Miss Marlowe, when she handed in the manuscript. “I knew just such a farm when I was a little girl, and oh! what fun I had there! And there was a mystery about that place, too!”
Published, like all the Marlowe books, by Grosset & Dunlap, New York, and for sale wherever good books are sold.
A LITTLE MISS NOBODY
“Oh, she’s only a little nobody! Don’t have anything to do with her!”
How often poor Nancy Nelson heard those words, and how they cut her to the heart. And the saying was true, she was a nobody. She had no folks, and she did not know where she had come from. All she did know was that she was at a boarding school and that a lawyer paid her tuition bills and gave her a mite of spending money.