{"product_id":"2940013929821","title":"BILLIE BRADLEY AND HER INHERITANCE","description":"BILLIE BRADLEY AND HER INHERITANCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     I. AN ACCIDENT.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    II. THAT HUNDRED DOLLARS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   III. CHET HELPS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    IV. THE LAST HOPE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     V. WORSE AND WORSE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    VI. DEBBIE DESERTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   VII. A STRANGE BURGLAR.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  VIII. STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    IX. GHOSTS AND THINGS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e     X. OLD FURNITURE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XI. BILLIE WINS OUT.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XII. GREAT PLANS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XIII. CHERRY CORNERS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XIV. WEIRD TALES.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XV. A NOISE IN THE DARK.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XVI. SHADOWS AND MYSTERY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XVII. ONLY A BAT.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XVIII. A FISH STORY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XIX. IN THE DEAD OF THE NIGHT.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e    XX. THE MOTOR AGAIN.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XXI. BOTH AT ONCE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XXII. A THRILLING DISCOVERY.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e XXIII. THE WRECKED AEROPLANE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  XXIV. COINS AND POSTAGE STAMPS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   XXV. \"LARGE FORTUNES.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBILLIE BRADLEY AND HER INHERITANCE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAN ACCIDENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Aren't you glad that we are only going back to school for a little\u003cbr\u003ewhile?\" cried Billie Bradley, as she gave a little exultant skip.\u003cbr\u003e\"Suppose it were fall and we were beginning high--\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Billie, stop it,\" commanded Laura Jordon, turning a pair of very blue\u003cbr\u003eand very indignant eyes upon her chum. \"I thought we were going to forget\u003cbr\u003eschool for a little while.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Well, we're not going back for anything I forgot,\" Billie was asserting\u003cbr\u003ewhen Violet Farrington, the third of the trio, interposed:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"If you two are going to quarrel on a day like this, I'm going home.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Who said we were quarreling?\" cried Billie, adding with a chuckle:\u003cbr\u003e\"We're just having what Miss Beggs\" (Miss Beggs being their English\u003cbr\u003eteacher) \"would call an 'amiable discussion.'\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Listen to the bright child!\" cried Laura mockingly. \"I don't see how\u003cbr\u003eyou ever get that way, Billie.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Neither do I,\" replied Billie, adding with a chuckle as they turned to\u003cbr\u003estare at her: \"Just natural talent, I guess.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe three chums--and three brighter, prettier girls it would be hard to\u003cbr\u003efind--were on their way to the grammar school which had just closed the\u003cbr\u003eweek before. Laura had forgotten a book which she prized highly and was\u003cbr\u003ein hope that the janitor, a good-natured old fellow, would let her in\u003cbr\u003elong enough to get it. At the last minute she had asked the other girls\u003cbr\u003eto go with her.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe three chums had lived in North Bend, a town of less than twenty\u003cbr\u003ethousand people, practically all their lives. The girls loved it, for it\u003cbr\u003ewas a pretty place. Still, being only forty miles by rail from New York\u003cbr\u003eCity, they had been taken to the roaring metropolis once in a while as a\u003cbr\u003etreat, and it was only with great difficulty that their parents had\u003cbr\u003esucceeded in luring them home again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAmong other things North Bend boasted a jewelry factory, of which Raymond\u003cbr\u003eJordon, Laura's father, was the owner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBillie's father was the prominent Martin Bradley, well known among real\u003cbr\u003eestate and insurance men, and it was from him that Billie, whose real\u003cbr\u003ename was Beatrice, had taken her brown eyes and brown hair and even that\u003cbr\u003emerry, irrepressible imp of mischief that made Billie Bradley the most\u003cbr\u003epopular, best-loved girl in all North Bend.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHer mother, Agnes Bradley, quiet, sincere and beautiful to look upon,\u003cbr\u003ekept just the check on her gay young daughter that the young girl needed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBillie had a brother, Chetwood Bradley, commonly known as \"Chet\"--a boy\u003cbr\u003eas different from his sister as night is from day, yet, in his own more\u003cbr\u003equiet way, extremely attractive.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLaura's brother, Theodore, known to his intimates as Teddy, was a\u003cbr\u003ehandsome boy, as full of wild spirits as Billie herself. Teddy had\u003cbr\u003eentertained a lively admiration for Billie Bradley since he was seven and\u003cbr\u003eshe was six. Teddy was tall for his fifteen years, and had already made a\u003cbr\u003ename for himself in the field of athletics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe third of the chums was Violet Farrington, a daughter of Richard\u003cbr\u003eFarrington, a well-known lawyer of North Bend, and Grace Farrington, a\u003cbr\u003esweet, motherly woman.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNearly everybody loved Violet, who was tall and dark and sweet-tempered.\u003cbr\u003eShe also acted as a sort of perpetual peace-maker between brown-eyed\u003cbr\u003eBillie and blue-eyed Laura.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079809876208,"sku":"2940013929821","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013929821_p0.jpg?v=1763601627","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013929821","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}