Made in U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.To the Sunny South[5]
II.Making New Acquaintances[19]
III.Timothy’s Drowning[37]
IV.A Race and What Came of It[50]
V.The Two Edwards[64]
VI.The Gray Motor Car[79]
VII.The Coward[94]
VIII.Mr. Duffy Gives a Party[111]
IX.The Bullfrog and the Pollywog[128]
X.The Song of the Motor[138]
XI.The Orange Grove[150]
XII.An Unwished Wish[161]
XIII.In the Deep Woods[173]
XIV.The Mocking Bird[186]
XV.Out of the Wilderness[196]
XVI.Mrs. L’Estrange[208]
XVII.A Morning Call[220]
XVIII.It’s an Ill Wind[234]
XIX.A Passage at Arms[246]
XX.The Hand of Destiny[258]
XXI.Picnicking Under the Pines[270]
XXII.The Last of the House of Troubles[280]
XXIII.Explanations[291]
XXIV.So Endeth the Second Lesson[298]

The Motor Maids by Palm and Pine

CHAPTER I.—TO THE SUNNY SOUTH.

The Atlantic Ocean and the breadth of Europe including half of Russia lay between Mr. Duncan Campbell and his daughter, Wilhelmina. But that did not prevent Mr. Campbell from thinking of numerous delightful surprises for Billie and her three friends in West Haven.

Sometimes it was a mere scrawl of a note hastily written at some small way station, saying: “Here’s a check for my Billie-girl. Treat your friends to ice-cream sodas and take ’em to the theater. Don’t forget your old Dad.”

Sometimes the surprise took the form of queer foreign-looking packages addressed to “the Misses Campbell, Butler, Brown and Price,” containing strange articles made by the peasants in the far-away land. He sent them each a Cossack costume with high red boots and red sashes. But some three weeks before the Easter holidays came the best surprise of all.