{"product_id":"2940013929548","title":"BETTY GORDON AT MOUNTAIN CAMP","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    CHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        I  THE ORANGE SILK OVER-BLOUSE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       II  THE FRUITS OF TANTALUS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      III  OFF FOR A GALLOP\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       IV  A SECOND IDA BELLETHORNE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        V  MEASLES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       VI  A DISAPPEARANCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      VII  ALL MRS. STAPLES COULD SAY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     VIII  UNCLE DICK MUST BE TOLD\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       IX  THE LIVE WIRE OCTETTE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        X  BEAUTIFUL SNOW\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       XI  STALLED, AND WITHOUT A DOCTOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XII  THE TUNNEL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XIII  AN ALARM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XIV  THE MOUNTAIN HUT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       XV  THE LOST GIRL\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XVI  THE CAMP ON THE OVERLOOK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XVII  OFF ON SNOWSHOES\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XVIII  GREAT EXCITEMENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XIX  THE EMERGENCY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       XX  BETTY'S RIDE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XXI  BETTY COMES THROUGH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXII  ON THE BRINK OF DISCOVERY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XXIII  CAN IT BE DONE?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     XXIV  TWENTY MILES OF GRADE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      XXV  ON THE DECK OF THE SAN SALVADOR\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE ORANGE SILK OVER-BLOUSE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This doesn't look like the street I came up through!\" exclaimed Betty\u003cbr\u003eGordon. \"These funny streets, with their dear old-fashioned houses, all\u003cbr\u003eseem, so much alike! And if there are any names stuck up at the corners\u003cbr\u003ethey must hide around behind the post when I come by like squirrels in the\u003cbr\u003ewoods.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I declare, there is a queer little shop stuck right in there between two\u003cbr\u003eof those refined-looking, if poverty-stricken, boarding-houses. Dear me!\u003cbr\u003ehow many come-down-in-the-world families have to take 'paying guests' to\u003cbr\u003ehelp out. Not like the Peabodys, but really needy people. What is it Bobby\u003cbr\u003ecalls 'em? 'P.G.s'--'paying guests.'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"I was a paying guest at Bramble Farm,\" ruminated Betty, still staring at\u003cbr\u003ethe little shop and the houses that flanked it on either side. \"And I\u003cbr\u003ecertainly had a hard time there. Bobby says that these people in\u003cbr\u003eGeorgetown are the remains of Southern aristocracy that were cast up on\u003cbr\u003ethis beach as long ago as the Civil War. Unlike the castaways on cannibal\u003cbr\u003eislands that we read about, Bobby says these castaways live off the\u003cbr\u003e'P.G.s'--and that's what Joseph Peabody tried to do! He tried to live off\u003cbr\u003eme. There! I knew he was a cannibal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Oh! Isn't that sweet?\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer sudden cry had no reference to the army of boarding-house keepers in\u003cbr\u003ethe neighborhood, nor to any signpost that pointed the way back to the\u003cbr\u003elittle square where the soldiers' monument stood and where Betty was to\u003cbr\u003emeet Carter, the Littells' chauffeur, and the big limousine. For she was\u003cbr\u003estill staring at the window of the little shop.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"What a lovely orange color! And that starburst pattern on the front! It's\u003cbr\u003elovely! What a surprising thing to see in a little neighborhood store like\u003cbr\u003ethis. I'm going to buy it if it fits me and I've money enough left in my\u003cbr\u003epurse.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eImpetuous as usual, Betty Gordon marched at once to the door of the little\u003cbr\u003eside-street shop. The most famous of such neighborhood shops, as described\u003cbr\u003eby Hawthorne, Betty knew all about. She had studied it in her English\u003cbr\u003ereadings at Shadyside only the previous term. But there was no\u003cbr\u003eGingerbread Man in this shop window!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the middle of the display window, which was divided into four not very\u003cbr\u003elarge panes, was arranged on a cross of bright metal a knitted over-blouse\u003cbr\u003eof the very newest burnt orange shade. The work was exquisitely done, as\u003cbr\u003eBetty could see even from outside the shop, and she did hope it would fit\u003cbr\u003eher.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn pushing open the door a silvery bell--not an annoying, jangling\u003cbr\u003ebell--played a very lively tune to attract the attention of a girl who sat\u003cbr\u003eat the back of the shop, her head bent close above the work on which she\u003cbr\u003ewas engaged. Although the bell stopped quivering when Betty closed the\u003cbr\u003edoor, the girl did not look up from her work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSharp-eyed Betty saw that the stranger was knitting, and she seemed to be\u003cbr\u003eengaged upon another over-blouse like that in the window, save that the\u003cbr\u003esilk in her lap was of a pretty dark blue shade. Betty saw her full, red\u003cbr\u003elips move placidly. The girl was counting over her work and she actually\u003cbr\u003ewas so deeply immersed in the knitting that she had not heard the bell or\u003cbr\u003erealized that a possible customer had entered.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ahem!\" coughed Betty.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"And that's twenty-four, and--cross--and two--and four----\" The girl was\u003cbr\u003ecounting aloud.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Why,\" murmured Betty Gordon, her eyes dancing, \"she's like Libbie\u003cbr\u003eLittell when she is somnambulating--I guess that is the right word.\u003cbr\u003eAnyway, when Libbie walks in her sleep she talks just like that----\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"_Ahem!_\"","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079744241904,"sku":"2940013929548","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013929548_p0.jpg?v=1763597385","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013929548","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}