The Adventure Girls at Happiness House

" Phyllis

n Sunshine Alley yet she hadn't been there that morning. Doctor Norc

"What-why-how-my dear,

e until I said she could come back he

ere," Phyllis declared. "I feel a

ll cure her," Adel

were gone Gale sat besid

ck. If you hadn't come soon I

ened in these weeks," Phyllis dem

ng examination in Biology today bu

s what! Monday I start classes again. I'll have to go on crutches for a while

"I'll tell Janet and Carol to come over. Let them

llis declared. "Oh, Gale, you have no idea ho

ad enough. All by myself at night, I'd dream I saw ghosts-I al

the horses we are to have in the spring," Phyllis said. "We wi

ed. "Ricky is an authority on the subject and she doesn't

out h

"but a real live horse will be more difficul

t that moment. "Phyllis! You're back! Gee! Hi, Glory," she shouted across t

s eager to welcome Phyllis back. The Fr

sively sneak out of their dormitory house with Janet and Carol. A light hidden under a tilted wastepaper basket enabled j

re about strange things happen

ilent heads. Howev

s were talking in the hall. I dropped my book accidentally and while I wa

they say?" Carol

hasn't yet discovered who to

nd Phyllis le

'No.' Then they saw

them," Car

pose they meant?

ave come to the conclusion that there is a

that all by yourse

school funds?" Gale murmure

liceman?" Carol asked, ju

newspaper in the country? That would be a

things disappear from under o

gs," Valerie reminded them. "It seems to be t

Phyllis murmured. "It must

n?" Carol started to giggle. "Where was sh

but the kitchen sink,"

stry teacher, has conferences with her a

Gale, too," V

jeered and dodged a m

emistry Hall? Wait until I dash down College Avenu

ll off," Jan

How do you get down from a

offere

wn," Mad

t it from a duck,"

e threw a handy pillow while Ca

she continued, "down is wh

ly. "After that terrible pun I think I had better t

w, Phyl," Valeri

to go to bed yet

She listened at the doo

e?" whispered Ja

ocent silence settled down over the room. Footsteps halted at the door. Cautiously the doorknob turned, but the door did not open. Instead,

f we had been discovered it would have been your faul

" Carol giggled.

fore we are discovered,"

is in the note," Janet p

lying on the floor. She turned it over in her hand. There was no address upon it. She tore it o

hissed. "Is

gain. "It says 'Do not interfere in af

said in disappointm

an?" Phyllis wh

clared bluntly. "We are to mi

hat?" Caro

Madge repeated. "But wh

dmitted. "We have

wonder if this was meant only for you

tonight-at least I hope

sn't want us to discover s

l insisted. "Mix

ily. "Can't you understand, darling, that

" Carol protested humorously

w that we are accused of prying into what

eyes and ears wide o

and out the back door of the building. Gale went downstairs with them, locked the door

it, Gale?"

I wish I knew. It migh

g that we shouldn't," Phyllis said

s. "I don't know, Phyl. I was beginning to

is said. "You had better go

day for you, hasn't it? The Doctor would scold if she

y. "Gale, promise me you won't do anything

ing I'll tell you-but I don't know wh