COPYRIGHT, 1934, BY
A. L. Burt Company
Missing At Marshlands
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO MY FRIEND
DOROTHY O’CONNOR
Who saw the Czar’s snuffbox
and told me its tragic story.
Contents
CHAPTER PAGE [I A Stalled Car] 9 [II A Man, a Dog, and a Girl] 19 [III The Russian] 29 [IV A Girl and a Bracelet] 42 [V The Stranger] 50 [VI The Unwelcome Guest] 56 [VII A Noise in the Night] 65 [VIII Hard to Believe] 72 [IX The Snuffbox] 78 [X Beauty That Dazzled] 85 [XI Still They Come] 92 [XII A Friend in the Deep] 98 [XIII The Tragic Messenger] 105 [XIV Missing at Marshlands] 110 [XV Downhearted; Not Discouraged] 115 [XVI That Dark Woman] 123 [XVII Olga Makes Light of It] 130 [XVIII Reilly on the Case] 136 [XIX Tania Howls] 142 [XX Mrs. Landry Helps] 147 [XXI Melissa Has a Pin] 157 [XXII The Policewoman] 164 [XXIII On the Water Trail] 170 [XXIV The Man Arrives] 178 [XXV The Man in the Marsh] 187 [XXVI Melissa Again] 192 [XXVII Terry’s Tactics] 199 [XXVIII Driven Away] 205 [XXIX The Barking of Tania] 219 [XXX All Is Well] 227
CHAPTER I
A Stalled Car
A bold morning sun thrust its warm glow into the crowded, cheerful room at Cedar Ridge, glinting on half-filled suitcases and revealing with a cruel indifference the dust gathered on the abandoned textbooks flung in a pile on the window seat. It was a hot sun, for summer was upon the land, and the school term was at an end. Arden, Terry, and Sim were packing to go home.
It had been a year full of interesting activity and some genuine fun, but it had not been without hard work in the scholastic field. So, happy that examinations were over at last, and overjoyed that they had passed all subjects, except for a condition in mathematics for Sim, the three girls were losing no time in leaving their beloved college behind them and heading for a summer of rest and hoped-for adventure.