Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays - Rescuing the Runaways

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Nan Sherwood's Winter Holidays, by Annie Roe CarrThis eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it,give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online atwww.gutenberg.netTitle: Nan Sherwood's Winter HolidaysAuthor: Annie Roe CarrRelease Date: June 13, 2004 [eBook #12610]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK NAN SHERWOOD'S WINTER HOLIDAYS***E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Project Gutenberg Beginners Projects, Mary Meehan, and the Project GutenbergOnline Distributed Proofreading TeamNAN SHERWOOD'S WINTER HOLIDAYSOr, Rescuing the RunawaysbyANNIE ROE CARR1916CHAPTER IDOWN PENDRAGON HILLTa-ra! ta-ra! ta-ra-ra-ra! ta-rat!Professor Krenner took the silver bugle from his lips while the strain echoed flatly from the opposite, wooded hill. That hillwas the Isle of Hope, a small island of a single eminence lying half a mile off the mainland, and not far north of Freeling.The shore of Lake Huron was sheathed in ice. It was almost Christmas time. Winter had for some weeks held this part ofMichigan in an iron grip. The girls of Lakeview Hall were tasting all the joys of winter sports.The cove at the boathouse (this was the building that some of the Lakeview Hall girls had once believed haunted) wasnow a smooth, well-scraped skating pond. Between the foot of the hill, on the brow of which ...