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Title: Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid

Author: Amy D. V. Chalmers

Release Date: July 9, 2005 [EBook #16253]

Language: English

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Produced by Al Haines

[Frontispiece: Their houseboat vacation had begun.]

Madge Morton,

Captain of the Merry Maid

By

AMY D. V. CHALMERS

Author of Madge Morton's Secret, Madge Morton's Trust, Madge Morton's
Victory.

PHILADELPHIA

HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY

COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY HOWARD E. ALTEMUS

PRINTED IN THE

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CONTENTS

CHAPTER.

I. MADGE MORTON'S PLAN
II. CHOOSING A CHAPERON
III. THE SEARCH FOR A HOUSEBOAT
IV. THE FAIRY'S WAND
V. ALL ABOARD
VI. PLEASURE BAY
VII. THE UNKNOWN JAILER
VIII. AN ANXIOUS NIGHT
IX. THE GIRL ON THE ISLAND
X. AN EXCITING RACE
XI. AT THE MERCY OF THE WAVES
XII. A BRAVE FIGHT
XIII. LIFE OR DEATH?
XIV. MADGE COMES INTO HER OWN AGAIN
XV. A CALL FOR HELP
XVI. THE ATTEMPTED RESCUE
XVII. THE CAPTURE
XVIII. ON A STRANGE SHORE
XIX. FINDING A WAY TO HELP MOLLIE
XX. MADGE'S OPPORTUNITY
XXI. MOLLIE'S BRAVE FIGHT
XXII. THE EVIL GENIUS
XXIII. "MOTHER"
XXIV. FAREWELL TO THE "MERRY MAID"

List of Illustrations

Their houseboat vacation had begun . . . Frontispiece.

Madge and Tom went gayly down to the boat.

The girls ran down to the water's edge.

"I wish you to come and live with me, Madge."

Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid

CHAPTER I

MADGE MORTON'S PLAN

"I never can bear it!" cried Madge Morton excitedly, throwing herself
down on her bed in one of the dormitories of Miss Tolliver's Select
School for Girls. "It is not half so bad for Eleanor. She, at least,
is going to spend her holiday with people she likes. But for Uncle
William and Aunt Sue to leave for California just as school closes, and
to send me off to a horrid old maid cousin for half my vacation, is
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