CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.Westward Ho![5]
II.Peter[22]
III.In Search of a Dinner[33]
IV.The Three Wishes[48]
V.An Incident of the Road[67]
VI.Under the Stars[81]
VII.Barney M’Gee[92]
VIII.Cutting the Bonds[106]
IX.The Girl from the Golden West[117]
X.Steptoe Lodge[130]
XI.The Hawkes Family[146]
XII.Into the Wilderness[156]
XIII.Hot Air Sue[168]
XIV.On the Road Again[177]
XV.In the Robbers’ Nest[190]
XVI.In the Rockies[206]
XVII.Salt Lake City[218]
XVIII.David and Goliath[229]
XIX.A Day of Surprises[242]
XX.The Elopement[258]
XXI.A Meeting in the Desert[270]
XXII.A Bit of Old Italy[280]
XXIII.A Change of Heart[292]
XXIV.San Francisco at Last[301]

The Motor Maids Across The Continent

CHAPTER I.—WESTWARD HO!

“At my age, too,” began Miss Helen Campbell, leaning back in her seat and folding her hands with an expression of resignation.

“At your age, what, dear cousin?” demanded Wilhelmina Campbell, superintending the strapping on at the back of the car of five extra large suit cases and other paraphernalia for a long trip. “Why should not things happen at your age as well as at ours? But at your age, what?”

“At my age to turn emigrant,” exclaimed the little lady. “At my age to become a gypsy vagabond. Oh, dear, oh, dear! What would grandpapa have said?”

“He would have been delighted, I am certain, Cousin Helen,” answered her young relative, “since he was a soldier and a jolly old gentleman, too, papa has always said.”

“But such an up to date gypsy-vagabond-emigrant, Miss Campbell,” pursued Elinor Butler, “one who rides in a motor car and wears a silk traveling coat and a sky-blue chiffon veil.”

“And has four ladies-in-waiting,” continued Nancy Brown.