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Title: The Girls of Hillcrest Farm
The Secret of the Rocks

Author: Amy Bell Marlowe

Release Date: May 16, 2010 [eBook #32401]

Language: English

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THE GIRLS OF HILLCREST FARM

Or

The Secret of the Rocks

by

AMY BELL MARLOWE

Author of
The Oldest of Four, A Little Miss Nobody,
The Girl from Sunset Ranch, Etc.

[Illustration: LUCAS TORE DOWN THE BANK AND WADED RIGHT INTO THE STREAM.
Frontispiece (Page 61.)]

New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers

Made in the United States of America

Copyright, 1914, by
Grosset & Dunlap

_The Girls of Hillcrest Farm_

CONTENTS

Chapter Page
I. EVERYTHING AT ONCE! 1
II. AUNT JANE PROPOSES 10
III. THE DOCTOR DISPOSES 24
IV. THE PILGRIMAGE 37
V. LUCAS PRITCHETT 51
VI. NEIGHBORS 61
VII. HILLCREST 73
VIII. THE WHISPER IN THE DARK 85
IX. MORNING AT HILLCREST 96
X. THE VENTURE 109
XI. AT THE SCHOOLHOUSE 126
XII. THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER 134
XIII. LYDDY DOESN'T WANT IT 144
XIV.