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| "Hold your fire!" orders Lieutenant Wingate. Washington Washington flounders into camp. "All this scare for a black nightmare," groans Emma. The "rural free delivery man" makes an early call. Another mystery for the Overland Riders to solve. |
Chapter XII—A Mountain Mystery |
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| A message and a postscript. Miss Briggs says she will show her companions. Camp is made on the Thompson farm. Julie calls to look the Overlanders over. Invited to a mountain dance. Hippy makes a trouble-forecast. |
Chapter XIII—Three Men in the Cornfield |
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| Washington says he "sawed" a man. Jeremiah makes a call on the Overland camp. How the Spectacle Man "fits" glasses. The "benefactor of all mankind" suddenly changes his mind. "Two dollars, please." |
Chapter XIV—Elfreda Distinguishes Herself |
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| The Mystery Man makes a pun. Jeremiah "rolls" out of camp. Elfreda discovers a bear. "He is eating up our food." With the bear's assistance Miss Briggs succeeds in lassoing him. The Overland camp turned into turmoil. |
Chapter XV—When Emma Said Too Much |
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| Young Bruin upsets the entire Overland party. "Quick! Get her loose!" Hippy kills and dresses the bear. Footprints in the cornfield. A stranger comes to call and fills up on bear meat. "I'm the game constable! Where's the bear?" he demands sternly. |
Chapter XVI—A Joke on the Overlanders |
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| "No one ain't allowed to have bear meat till December." Overland Riders are told that they are under arrest. Hippy knocks out the "constable" and brings him to with a pail of water. "I'll give you ten seconds to get out of camp!" |
Chapter XVII—The Dance at Coon Hollow |
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| Hippy declares he is not getting sufficient nourishment. Gay mountain folk gather at the schoolhouse. Washington's music not appreciated. Emma Dean lays the foundation for a "riot." Hippy makes a disheartening discovery. |
Chapter XVIII—An Interrupted Party |
180 |
| Julie introduces her "feller" to the Overlanders. Lum Bangs threatens Lieutenant Wingate. Weapons drawn in the schoolroom. A mysterious shot cripples the "constable." Knocked out by a blow. Washington has a bad fright. |
Chapter XIX—A Call for Help |
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| Emma "con-centrates" on Hippy and "saves his life." The Overland camp found destroyed. "Dey done got de mule!" wailed the colored boy. Julie's warning is recalled. Grace and Elfreda summoned to the Thompson home to care for sick children. |
Chapter XX—Hippy as a Roughrider |
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| Lieutenant Wingate goes for a doctor. The Overland girls sleep in a barn. Julie refuses to tell tales. The doctor arrives alone. "We were attacked from ambush!" Jed Thompson orders the Overland nurses from his cabin. |
Chapter XXI—An Apology and a Threat |
209 |
| "The lieutenant is down there yet and may be dead!" The doctor reads Jed Thompson a severe lecture. Thompson goes to Hippy's rescue. Hippy accused of being Jim Townsend. "If he looks like me, he's a lucky man." |
Chapter XXII—Julie Brings Disturbing News |
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| Lieutenant Wingate informs Jed that the Spurgeons are coming to "shoot him up." On the trail again. Julie overtakes the Overland Riders, bearing a warning. "Bat Spurgeon an' his gang is waitin' fer you-uns on the White River Ridge," she tells them. |
Chapter XXIII—The Gathering of the Clans |
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| Grace learns that Tom Gray is in the feudist country. Tom's tent found, but he is missing. Nora's missile hits the wrong man. The Overland Riders seek refuge in a cave. Fresh disasters befall them. Fighting out a mountain feud. |
Chapter XXIV—Trail's End |
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| The Mystery Man found a captive in a cave. He "fits" Grace Harlowe with "magic glasses." Through her new specs she sees Tom Gray. Jeremiah Long says his farewell. What Tom found on Hippy's claim. |
GRACE HARLOWE'S
OVERLAND RIDERS
AMONG THE KENTUCKY MOUNTAINEERS
CHAPTER I
EXCITEMENT IN THE FOOTHILLS
The foothills of the Kentucky Mountains echoed to the strains of a rollicking college song, as Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders rode into a laurel-bordered clearing and dismounted to make their first camp of this, their third summer's outing in the saddle.
Only one of the party remained on his mount. This one was Washington Washington, the colored boy that they had taken on at
