THE MEADOW-BROOK GIRLS AFLOAT***
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THE MEADOW-BROOK GIRLS AFLOAT
Or, The Stormy Cruise of the Red Rover
by
Janet Aldridge
Author of _The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas_, _The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country_, _The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills_, etc.
Illustrated
1913
[Illustration: "It's the 'Red Rover'!"]
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I. SCENTING A MYSTERY
II. CRAZY JANE MAKES A DISCOVERY
III. SETTING UP HOUSEKEEPING
IV. A SUDDEN AWAKENING
V. LAND HO!
VI. CAPTAIN GEORGE MAKES A FIND
VII. A MYSTERIOUS NIGHT JOURNEY
VIII. THE ISLAND OF DELIGHT
IX. THE TRAMP CLUB IS ALARMED
X. THEIR SUSPICIONS AROUSED
XI. MARGERY MAKES A CUSTARD
XII. MAKING AN EXCITING DISCOVERY
XIII. AN EARLY MORNING SURPRISE
XIV. THE MIDNIGHT ALARM
XV. THE ROUT OF THE PIRATE CREW
XVI. A MIDNIGHT VISITOR
XVII. A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE
XVIII. A FRUITLESS SEARCH
XIX. THE TRAMP CLUB FINDS A CLUE
XX. JANE PLAYS EAVESDROPPER
XXI. A DOUBLE SURPRISE
XXII. SPOOKS OF THE LONESOME ISLE
XXIII. ON A STORMY CRUISE
XXIV. CONCLUSION
CHAPTER I
SCENTING A MYSTERY
"I wouldn't advise you young ladies to take the boat out."
Miss Elting instantly recalled the message from her brother. The telegram was in her pocket at that moment, "If you have any trouble, Dee Dickinson will see that you are protected," read the message. It was Dee Dickinson who had spoken to her that moment.
Dee had made a distinctly unfavorable impression on Miss Elting, the guardian and companion of the Meadow-Brook Girls. Her brother's fishing boat had been left in the care of this man by her brother Bert, who had now turned it over to his sister and the Meadow-Brook Girls for their summer vacation.
"Why not?" questioned the young woman in answer to his words of warning. "Isn't the boat in good condition?"
"Oh, yes. That is, it isn't by any means in a sinking condition."
