BILLIE BRADLEY AT THREE TOWERS HALL

OR, LEADING A NEEDED REBELLION

BY JANET D. WHEELER

AUTHOR OF "BILLIE BRADLEY AND HER INHERITANCE,"
"BILLIE BRADLEY ON LIGHTHOUSE ISLAND," ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
GEORGE SULLY & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1920, by
GEORGE SULLY & COMPANY

The girls swept past them, and ran down the steps of the school.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I Almost a Fortune
CHAPTER II The Wreck
CHAPTER III Recovered Treasure
CHAPTER IV The "Codfish"
CHAPTER V Amanda's Surprise
CHAPTER VI Off for Three Towers Hall
CHAPTER VII Miss Walters
CHAPTER VIII The Dill Pickles
CHAPTER IX A New Acquaintance
CHAPTER X Lake Molata
CHAPTER XI Lights Out
CHAPTER XII Too Much to Eat
CHAPTER XIII Four Enemies
CHAPTER XIV Billie Snores Successfully
CHAPTER XV A Plot Fails
CHAPTER XVI Mystery
CHAPTER XVII The Quarrel
CHAPTER XVIII The "Codfish" Again
CHAPTER XIX Robbed!
CHAPTER XX Chet Plays the Hero
CHAPTER XXI Raiding the Pantry
CHAPTER XXII A Challenge
CHAPTER XXIII A Prisoner of War
CHAPTER XXIV The Capture
CHAPTER XXV Happy Again

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BILLIE BRADLEY AT THREE TOWERS HALL

CHAPTER I

ALMOST A FORTUNE

"Oh, Dad, I can't believe it's true!"

In the rather dim light of the gloomy old room the boys and girls looked queer—almost ghostly. They were gathered about a shabby old trunk, and beside this trunk a man was kneeling. As Billie Bradley spoke, the man, who was her father, rose to his feet and thoughtfully brushed the dust from his clothes. Then he stood looking down at the hundreds and hundreds of postage stamps and old coins that filled the queer old trunk.

"Is it really true, Dad?" Billie continued, shaking her father's arm impatiently while the other young folks looked eagerly up at him.

Mr. Bradley nodded slowly.

"Yes, you really have made a find this time, Billie," he said. "Of course I'm not an expert, but I'm sure the coins in that old trunk are worth three thousand dollars, and the postage stamps ought to bring at least two thousand more——"

"At least two thousand more!" broke in Chet Bradley, excitedly. "Does that mean that Billie may get more for the postage stamps?"

"I shouldn't wonder," replied Mr. Bradley, nodding his head. "However," he added, smiling round at the girls and boys, "you'd better not count on anything over five thousand."

"But five thousand dollars!" interrupted Laura Jordon, in an awed voice. "Just think of it, Billie! And because your Aunt Beatrice left you this house and everything in it, every last cent of that five thousand belongs to you."

"Yes," said Teddy Jordon, turning to Billie with a chuckle. "I suppose you