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LUCAS TORE DOWN THE BANK AND WADED RIGHT INTO THE STREAM. Frontispiece (Page 61.)

THE GIRLS OF HILLCREST FARM

OR

THE SECRET OF THE ROCKS

BY

AMY BELL MARLOWE

AUTHOR OF THE OLDEST OF FOUR, A LITTLE MISS NOBODY, THE GIRL FROM SUNSET RANCH, ETC.

NEW YORK

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS

Made in the United States of America

Copyright, 1914, by

GROSSET & DUNLAP

The Girls of Hillcrest Farm

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE

I.Everything at Once!1

II.Aunt Jane Proposes10

III.The Doctor Disposes24

IV.The Pilgrimage37

V.Lucas Pritchett51

VI.Neighbors61

VII.Hillcrest73

VIII.The Whisper in the Dark85

IX.Morning at Hillcrest96

X.The Venture109

XI.At the Schoolhouse126

XII.The Green-Eyed Monster134

XIII.Lyddy Doesn’t Want It144

XIV.The Colesworths161

XV.Another Boarder171

XVI.The Ball Keeps Rolling184

XVII.The Runaway Grandmother192

XVIII.The Queer Boarder199

XIX.Widow Harrison’s Troubles208

XX.The Temperance Club Again216

XXI.Caught224

XXII.The Hidden Treasure236

XXIII.The Vendue248

XXIV.Professor Spink’s Bottles258

XXV.In the Old Doctor’s Office269

XXVI.A Blow-up276

XXVII.They Lose a Boarder283

XXVIII.The Secret Revealed289

XXIX.An Automobile Race298

XXX.The Hillcrest Company, Limited303