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Title: The Meadow-Brook Girls Afloat

Author: Janet Aldridge

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THE MEADOW-BROOK GIRLS AFLOAT

Or, The Stormy Cruise of the Red Rover

by

Janet Aldridge

Author of
_The Meadow-Brook Girls Under Canvas_,
_The Meadow-Brook Girls Across Country_,
_The Meadow-Brook Girls in the Hills_, etc.

Illustrated

1913

[Illustration: "It's the 'Red Rover'!"]

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. SCENTING A MYSTERY

II. CRAZY JANE MAKES A DISCOVERY

III. SETTING UP HOUSEKEEPING

IV. A SUDDEN AWAKENING

V. LAND HO!

VI. CAPTAIN GEORGE MAKES A FIND

VII. A MYSTERIOUS NIGHT JOURNEY

VIII. THE ISLAND OF DELIGHT

IX. THE TRAMP CLUB IS ALARMED

X. THEIR SUSPICIONS AROUSED

XI. MARGERY MAKES A CUSTARD

XII. MAKING AN EXCITING DISCOVERY

XIII. AN EARLY MORNING SURPRISE

XIV. THE MIDNIGHT ALARM

XV. THE ROUT OF THE PIRATE CREW

XVI. A MIDNIGHT VISITOR

XVII. A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE

XVIII. A FRUITLESS SEARCH

XIX. THE TRAMP CLUB FINDS A CLUE

XX. JANE PLAYS EAVESDROPPER

XXI. A DOUBLE SURPRISE

XXII. SPOOKS OF THE LONESOME ISLE

XXIII. ON A STORMY CRUISE

XXIV. CONCLUSION

CHAPTER I

SCENTING A MYSTERY

"I wouldn't advise you young ladies to take the boat out."

Miss Elting instantly recalled the message from her brother. The
telegram was in her pocket at that moment, "If you have any trouble, Dee
Dickinson will see that you