{"product_id":"2940148657965","title":"Witches Cove (Illustrated)","description":"CHAPTER I \u003cbr\u003eMYSTERIES OF THE NIGHT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was night on Casco Bay off the coast of Maine. There was no moon. Stars were hidden by a fine haze. The distant harbor lights of Portland, eight of them, gleaming faintly in pairs like yellow cat’s eyes, served only to intensify the blackness of the water and the night.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRuth Bracket’s arms moved backward and forward in rhythmic motion. She was rowing, yet no sound came from her oarlocks. Oars and oarlocks were padded. She liked it best that way. Why? Mystery—that magic word “mystery.” How she loved it!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[12]\u003cbr\u003eIn the stern of the little punt sat slim, black-haired, dark-eyed Betty Bronson, a city girl from the heart of America who was enjoying her first summer on the coast of Maine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBetty, too, loved mystery. And into her life and that of her stout seashore girl companion had come a little mystery that day. At this very moment, as Ruth rested on her muffled oar, there came creeping across the silent waters and through the black of night a second bit of mystery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe first mystery had come to them on shore in the hold of a beached three-masted schooner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRuth knew the schooner well enough. She had been on board her a dozen times and thought she knew all about her—but she didn’t.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe owner, a dark-skinned foreigner who had purchased the schooner six months before, used her for bringing wood to the islands. There is, so they say, an island in Casco Bay for every day in the year. Each island has its summer colony. These summer folks like an open fire to sit by at night and this requires wood. The schooner had been bringing it in from somewhere—from Canada some said. No one seemed to know for sure.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e[13]\u003cbr\u003eBeing an old schooner the wood-carrying craft must be beached from time to time to have her seams calked. They beached her at high tide. Low tide found her stranded. The return of high tide carried her off again.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this there is no mystery. The mystery began when Ruth and Betty, along with other girls and boys of the island, swarmed up a rope ladder to the tilted deck of the beached schooner.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBeing of a bolder nature than the others, having always a consuming desire to see the hold of so ancient a ship, Ruth had led Betty into the very heart of the schooner and had opened a door to pursue her investigation further when a harsh voice called down to her:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Here now. Come out’a da sheep!”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was a foreign skipper.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER         PAGE\u003cbr\u003eI Mysteries of the Night 11\u003cbr\u003eII Sculling in the Night 23\u003cbr\u003eIII In the Dungeon 34\u003cbr\u003eIV The Face in the Fire 42\u003cbr\u003eV Three Gray Witches 58\u003cbr\u003eVI Off for Further Adventure 80\u003cbr\u003eVII Some Lobsters 84\u003cbr\u003eVIII From Out the Fog 109\u003cbr\u003eIX Off Black Head 121\u003cbr\u003eX The Tilting Floor 137\u003cbr\u003eXI The Wavering Red Light 149\u003cbr\u003eXII The Little Man of Witches Cove 170\u003cbr\u003eXIII Under Fire 178\u003cbr\u003eXIV The Passing of Black Gull 193\u003cbr\u003eXV The Searching Pencil of Light 200\u003cbr\u003eXVI The Old Fort 212\u003cbr\u003eXVII Secrets Told 221\u003cbr\u003eXVIII Kidnapped 230\u003cbr\u003eXIX A Fire on the Beach 241\u003cbr\u003eXX The Chase 245\u003cbr\u003eXXI On Air and Sea 254\u003cbr\u003eXXII The Story Told 261","brand":"Lost Leaf Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47075389538544,"sku":"2940148657965","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940148657965_p0.jpg?v=1763706514","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940148657965","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}