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Laura Dent Crane
Laura Dent Crane was an American author known for writing a series of young adult novels centered around sports, particularly about girls and women in athletic pursuits. She wrote several books in the early 20th century, including "The Automobile Girls" series, which featured adventurous young women traveling and solving mysteries. Her works often aimed to inspire independence and confidence in young girls, emphasizing physical activity and problem-solving. Crane's stories were part of a broader movement in literature that encouraged the empowerment of women during a time of social change.
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CHAPTER I A CHANCE MEETING Barbara Thurston stood at the window of a large old-fashioned house, looking out into Connecticut Avenue. It was almost dark. An occasional light twinkled outside in the street, but the room in which Barbara was stationed was still shrouded in twilight. Suddenly she heard a curtain at the farther end of the drawing-room rustle faintly. Bab turned and saw a young man standing...
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CHAPTER I THE MAN IN SECTION THIRTEENBARBARA THURSTON awakened with a violent start."Wha—a-at is it?" she muttered, then opened her eyes wide. In the darkness of the Pullman berth she could see nothing at all save a faint perpendicular line of light at the edges of the curtains that enclosed the section. "I—I wonder what made me wake up so suddenly?" Barbara put out a groping hand....
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CHAPTER I THE REUNION “Mollie Thurston, we are lost!” cried Barbara dramatically. The two sisters were in the depth of a New Jersey woods one afternoon in early September. “Well, what if we are!” laughed Mollie, leaning over to add a cluster of wild asters to her great bunch of golden rod. “We have two hours ahead of us. Surely such clever woodsmen as we are can find our way out of woods...
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