Betty Gordon at Mountain Camp; Or, The Mystery of Ida Bellethorne

								


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BETTY GORDON AT MOUNTAIN CAMP
Or, The Mystery of Ida Bellethorne
by
ALICE B. EMERSON
Author of Betty Gordon at Bramble Farm, Betty Gordon at Boarding
School, "Ruth Fielding Series," etc.
Illustrated
New York
Cupples & Leon Company
Publishers

Books for Girls
By ALICE B. EMERSON
12mo. Cloth. Illustrated
BETTY GORDON SERIES



    BETTY GORDON AT BRAMBLE FARM

    BETTY GORDON IN WASHINGTON

    BETTY GORDON IN THE LAND OF OIL

    BETTY GORDON AT BOARDING SCHOOL

    BETTY GORDON AT MOUNTAIN CAMP
RUTH FIELDING SERIES



    RUTH FIELDING OF THE RED MILL

    RUTH FIELDING AT BRIARWOOD HALL

    RUTH FIELDING AT SNOW CAMP

    RUTH FIELDING AT LIGHTHOUSE POINT

    RUTH FIELDING AT SILVER RANCH

    RUTH FIELDING ON CLIFF ISLAND

    RUTH FIELDING AT SUNRISE FARM

    RUTH FIELDING AND THE GYPSIES

    RUTH FIELDING IN MOVING PICTURES

    RUTH FIELDING DOWN IN DIXIE

    RUTH FIELDING AT COLLEGE

    RUTH FIELDING IN THE SADDLE

    RUTH FIELDING IN THE RED CROSS

    RUTH FIELDING AT THE WAR FRONT

    RUTH FIELDING HOMEWARD BOUND

    RUTH FIELDING DOWN EAST

    RUTH FIELDING IN THE GREAT NORTH-WEST

    RUTH FIELDING ON THE ST. LAWRENCE
Cupples & Leon Co., Publishers, New York
1922

CONTENTS



    CHAPTER



        I  THE ORANGE SILK OVER-BLOUSE



       II  THE FRUITS OF TANTALUS



      III  OFF FOR A GALLOP



       IV  A SECOND IDA BELLETHORNE



        V  MEASLES



       VI  A DISAPPEARANCE



      VII  ALL MRS. STAPLES COULD SAY



     VIII  UNCLE DICK MUST BE TOLD



       IX  THE LIVE WIRE OCTETTE



        X  BEAUTIFUL SNOW



       XI  STALLED, AND WITHOUT A DOCTOR



      XII  THE TUNNEL



     XIII  AN ALARM



      XIV  THE MOUNTAIN HUT



       XV  THE LOST GIRL



      XVI  THE CAMP ON THE OVERLOOK



     XVII  OFF ON SNOWSHOES



    XVIII  GREAT EXCITEMENT



      XIX  THE EMERGENCY



       XX  BETTY'S RIDE



      XXI  BETTY COMES THROUGH



     XXII  ON THE BRINK OF DISCOVERY



    XXIII  CAN IT BE DONE?



     XXIV  TWENTY MILES OF GRADE



      XXV  ON THE DECK OF THE SAN SALVADOR

CHAPTER I
THE ORANGE SILK OVER-BLOUSE

"This doesn't look like the street I came up through!" exclaimed Betty
Gordon. "These funny streets, with their dear old-fashioned houses, all
seem, so much alike! And if there are any names stuck up at the corners
they must hide around behind the post when I come by like squirrels in the
woods.
"I declare, there is a queer little shop stuck right in there between two
of those refined-looking, if poverty-stricken, boarding-houses. Dear me!
how many come-down-in-the-world families have to take 'paying guests' to
help out. Not like the Peabodys, but really needy people. What is it Bobby