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Title: The Automobile Girls at Chicago
or, Winning Out Against Heavy Odds

Author: Laura Dent Crane

Release Date: May 19, 2010 [eBook #32437]

Language: English

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THE AUTOMOBILE GIRLS AT CHICAGO

Or

Winning Out Against Heavy Odds

by

LAURA DENT CRANE

Author of The Automobile Girls at Newport, The Automobile Girls
in the Berkshires, The Automobile Girls
Along the Hudson, etc.

Illustrated

[Illustration: "He's Here!" Cried Barbara.

_Frontispiece._]

Philadelphia
Henry Altemus Company

Copyright, 1912, by
Howard E. Altemus

Printed in the
United States of America

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE MAN IN SECTION THIRTEEN 7
II. THE MISSING PASSENGER 19
III. A DIZZY ROUND OF PLEASURE 32
IV. BATTLE OF THE BULLS AND BEARS 45
V. AN EMBARRASSING MOMENT 56
VI. THE WRECK OF MR. A. BUBBLE 68
VII. THE MYSTERY OF THE IRON GATES 75
VIII. EXPLORING THE SECRET PASSAGE 84
IX. IN AN INDIAN GRAVEYARD 96
X. MEETING A TREASURE HUNTER 106
XI. GIVING AN ATTIC PARTY 116
XII. A CURIOUS OLD JOURNAL 127
XIII. THE MYSTERY OF THE ATTIC 136
XIV. TOMMY TAKES A WILD RIDE 143
XV. AN AMAZING OCCURRENCE 154
XV