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Title: The Rival Campers Ashore
The Mystery of the Mill

Author: Ruel Perley Smith

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THE RIVAL CAMPERS ASHORE

Or, The Mystery of the Mill

by

RUEL PERLEY SMITH

Author of "The Rival Campers Series," "Prisoners of Fortune," etc.

Illustrated by Louis D. Gowing

Boston
The Page Company
Publishers

Copyright, 1907
by The Page Company

Entered at Stationers' Hall, London

All rights reserved

Made in U. S. A.

New Edition, May, 1925

The Colonial Press

C. H. Simonds Co., Boston, U. S. A.

[Illustration: "HE HANDED THE PACKAGE TO COLONEL WITHAM."]

CONTENTS

I. AN INLAND VOYAGE

II. TURNED ADRIFT

III. THE OLD MILL

IV. THE TROUT POOL

V. SOME CAUSES OF TROUBLE

VI. CAPTURING AN INDIAN

VII. A LONG RACE BEGUN

VIII. CONQUERING THE RAPIDS

IX. AN EXCITING FINISH

X. HENRY BURNS MAKES A GIFT

XI. COL. WITHAM GETS THE MILL

XII. THE GOLDEN COIN

XIII. A SAILING ADVENTURE

XIV. THE FORTUNE-TELLER

XV. A HUNT THROUGH THE MILL

XVI. THE GOLDEN COIN LOST AGAIN

XVII. A STRANGE ADMISSION

XVIII. GRANNY THORNTON'S SECRET

XIX. THE MYSTERY OF THE MILL

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"HE HANDED THE PACKAGE TO COLONEL WITHAM"

"AT THE SOUND OF THE MAN'S VOICE, HENRY BURNS AND JACK HARVEY HAD SPRUNG
UP IN AMAZEMENT"

"THE WATCHERS ASHORE SAW THE C