Ruth Fielding At College

OR

THE MISSING EXAMINATION PAPERS

BY ALICE B. EMERSON

Author of "Ruth Fielding of the Red Mill," "Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island," Etc.

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1917, by
Cupples & Leon Company

Ruth Fielding at College

Printed in U. S. A.

"ASHORE! PUT US ASHORE!" RUTH GASPED.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. Looking Collegeward
CHAPTER II. Maggie
CHAPTER III. Expectations
CHAPTER IV. First Impressions
CHAPTER V. Getting Settled
CHAPTER VI. Miss Cullam's Trouble
CHAPTER VII. Fame Is Not Always an Asset
CHAPTER VIII. The Stone Face
CHAPTER IX. Getting on
CHAPTER X. A Tempest in a Teapot
CHAPTER XI. The One Rebel
CHAPTER XII. Ruth Is Not Satisfied
CHAPTER XIII. The Girl in the Storm
CHAPTER XIV. "Oft in the Stilly Night"
CHAPTER XV. An Odd Adventure
CHAPTER XVI. What Was in Rebecca's Trunk
CHAPTER XVII. What Was in Rebecca's Heart
CHAPTER XVIII. Bearding the Lions
CHAPTER XIX. A Deep, Dark Plot
CHAPTER XX. Two Surprises
CHAPTER XXI. Many Things Happen
CHAPTER XXII. Can It Be a Clue?
CHAPTER XXIII. The Squall
CHAPTER XXIV. Treasure Hunting
CHAPTER XXV. The End of a Perfect Year

THE RUTH FIELDING SERIES
THE BARTON BOOKS FOR GIRLS
THE BETTY GORDON SERIES

RUTH FIELDING AT COLLEGE

CHAPTER I

LOOKING COLLEGEWARD

"Oh, my back! and oh, my bones!"

By no possibility could Aunt Alvirah Boggs have risen from her low rocking chair in the Red Mill kitchen without murmuring this complaint.

She was a little, hoop-backed woman, with crippled limbs; but she possessed a countenance that was very much alive, nut-brown and innumerably wrinkled though it was.

She had been Mr. Jabez Potter's housekeeper at the Red Mill for more than fifteen years, and if anybody knew the "moods and tenses" of the miserly miller, it must have been Aunt Alvirah. She even professed to know the miller's feelings toward his grand-niece, Ruth Fielding, better than Ruth knew them herself.

The little old woman was expecting the return of Ruth now, and she went to the porch to see if she could spy her down the road, and thus be warned in time to set the tea to draw. Ruth and her friends, who had gone for a tramp in the September