The Motor Girls at Lookout Beach

In Quest of the Runaways

Margaret Penrose

1911

CONTENTS

[CHAPTER I—SUMMER PLANS]
[CHAPTER II—AT THE STRAWBERRY PATCH]
[CHAPTER III—THE STRIKE]
[CHAPTER IV—ARBITRATION]
[CHAPTER V—TOO CONFIDENT]
[CHAPTER VI—CORA’S QUEER PLIGHT]
[CHAPTER VII—THE CLUE AT THE SPRING HOUSE]
[CHAPTER VIII—A STARTLING DISCOVERY]
[CHAPTER IX—COMPLICATIONS]
[CHAPTER X—ALMOST—BUT NOT QUITE]
[CHAPTER XI—ANDY’S WARNING]
[CHAPTER XII—THE “UNPLANNED” PLANS]
[CHAPTER XIII—GOING AND COMING]
[CHAPTER XIV—LOST ON THE ROAD]
[CHAPTER XV—BOYS TO THE RESCUE]
[CHAPTER XVI—THE SHADOW IN THE HEDGE]
[CHAPTER XVII—AT WAYSIDE INN]
[CHAPTER XVIII—LOOKOUT BEACH]
[CHAPTER XIX—THE MOVING PICTURE “MOVED”]
[CHAPTER XX—THE GAIETY OF GOING]
[CHAPTER XXI—BOYS AND GIRLS]
[CHAPTER XXII—A STRUGGLE WITH THE WAVES]
[CHAPTER XXIII—THE EXCURSION]
[CHAPTER XXIV—THE TWO ORPHANS]
[CHAPTER XXV—THE TRUTH! THE WHOLE TRUTH!]

[CHAPTER I—SUMMER PLANS]

Bess Robinson was so filled with enthusiasm that her sister Belle declared there was serious danger of “blowing-up,” unless there was some repression. Belle herself might be equally enthusiastic, but she had a way of restraining herself, while Bess just delighted in the “utmost” of everything. The two sisters were talking on the side porch of their handsome home in Chelton, a New England town, located on the Chelton river. It was a beautiful day, late in spring.

“Well, have you sufficiently quieted down, Bess?” asked Belle, after a pause, which succeeded the more quiet girl’s attempt to curb her sister’s enthusiasm—a pause that was filled with just the hint of pique.