Ruth Fielding At Sunrise Farm

thing for Sadie Raby if she found her. Perhaps, as Helen

adful thing for Sadie to be wandering about the country all alone, a

n as wild and neglected if Uncle Jabez, with all his crankine

he car toward home again. As the machine slid so smoothly along the road toward the Lumano and the Red Mill, Ruth sudd

uth said, as Helen shut of

That's the Wilkins Corn

ss the girls with his tongue-poor fellow! he knew no better, though Hel

being eaten up by a great four-legg

ands. A cheery whistle came from the wood. Reno started and turned to look. He had h

Tom Cameron, and the

a sight you are

aimed his sister. "Hav

eveled, anybody could have seen that, dressed in his sister's clothes, and she in his, one could sc

" demanded Ruth, quite as

-eh?" he demanded, but a little ruefully. "Say!

out of the car and for the first time noticing that there

And neither am I. O

scratched!" e

That was an accident. S

out?" screamed his sister, at last fully aroused.

eginning to grin again. "Just be

ace scratched!

ait! let me tell

len. "You have gotten into trouble, you re

exclaimed Tom, with some vexation. "If you

He has got to tell us. It is about

f you is the worse," said Tom,

said Helen

d yonder. It was just about where your Uncle Jabe's wagon,

nod

l and I held him back till I located the trouble. There was a cam

trouble," Tom said, wagging his head. "But I followed him down the bank just the same,

nd Reno was holding them off from a girl. He showed his teeth all righ

asped his sister. "What

twelve, or so. But she'd been sleeping out in her clothes

trying to do to y

ys she. 'I ain't got much, bu

' I said. 'But if I were y

an to the railroad and jump a train. These fellers have b

nd one of them jumped for her. I tripped him up," said Tom, grinning aga

!" murmu

the fire, but was more scared than hurt. But the other fe

such a girl as that

" gasped Ruth

die Raby-eh?" q

ious. "What do you girls know about her? Sa

t do you think of th

s she now?"

t it," complained Tom. "You girls

o ahead," beg

own, and Reno was holding the other by the wrist, she started to dig into the face o

They hobbled away through the bushes. Then I took her to the rail

aboard, Tom

llars to let her ride as far as Campton. I knew those two

, with disgust. "Doesn't it ta

at?" be

as Sadie Raby?"

what s

l," said his sister. "Ruth did, anywa

didn't I?" demanded

suppose is to become of a girl like

mpton real bad. I reckon she has

ry is true," said Ruth, quietl

n, eagerly. "Oh, dear! it's too bad Ruth and

from those tramps," he scoffed. "She didn't have but a little money, an