CHAPTERPAGE
I.Where, Oh, Where? [1]
II.Plans for the Summer [12]
III.Visitors’ Day [20]
IV.“Lonesome Liz” [29]
V.The Start [39]
VI.Prettyman Sweet Makes a Friend [50]
VII.The Barnacle [61]
VIII.Up Rocky River [72]
IX.The Camp on Acorn Island [80]
X.Getting Used to It [92]
XI.Liz Sees a “Ha’nt” [102]
XII.The “Kleptomaniantic” Ghost [114]
XIII.The Search of the Island [121]
XIV.“More Fun Than a Little” [128]
XV.The Barnacle Has a Nose [137]
XVI.Where the Barnacle’s Nose Led Him [144]
XVII.A Perfectly Unsatisfactory Interview [152]
XVIII.An Eventful Fishing Trip [159]
XIX.The Young Man With the Gun [170]
XX.Laura Keeps Her Secret [175]
XXI.The Sheriff With His Dogs [182]
XXII.Where Professor Dimp Comes in Big [189]
XXIII.Liz on the Defensive [196]
XXIV.The Barnacle Trees Something at Last [201]
XXV.“Quite All Right” [207]

1

THE GIRLS
OF CENTRAL HIGH
IN CAMP

CHAPTER I

WHERE, OH, WHERE?

Field day was past and gone and the senior class of Central High, Centerport’s largest and most popular school, was thinking of little but white dresses, bouquets, and blue-ribboned diplomas.

The group of juniors, however, who had made the school’s athletic record for the year in the Girls’ Branch Athletic League, had other matters to discuss—and in their opinion they were matters of much greater moment.

“Boiled down,” stated Bobby Hargrew, “to its last common divisor, it is ‘Where, oh, where shall we spend our vacation?’”