ccess being assured in the mining plans of the gold vein on Grizzly
Slide, and the valuable lava cliffs located on Pebbly Pit ranch also
finding a market as brilliant gems for use in jewelry, Polly and Eleanor
decided to accompany Anne Stewart to New York, where she was going to
teach in an exclusive school for young ladies.

In the third book, Polly and Eleanor's adventures in New York are told.
Their school experiences; the amateur theatricals at which Polly saved a
girl from the fire, and thus found some splendid friends; and the new
acquaintance, Ruth Ashby, who was the only child of the Ashbys. They also
met Mr. Fabian in a most unusual manner, and through him, they became
interested in Interior Decorating, to study it as a profession. When the
school-year ended, all these friends invited the two girls to join their
party that was planned to tour Europe and visit noted places where
antiques are exhibited.

The following fourth book describes the amusing incidents of the three
girls on board the steamer, after they meet the Alexanders. Mrs.
Alexander, the gorgeously-plumed ranch-woman; Dorothy, always known as
"Dodo," the restive girl of Polly's own age; and little Ebeneezer
Alexander, too meek and self-effacing to deny his spouse anything, but
always providing the funds for her caprices. This present caprice, of
rushing to Europe to find a "title" for Dodo to marry, was the latest and
hardest of all for him to agree to.

Because of Mrs. Alexander's whim, the ludicrous experiences that came
upon the innocent heads of Polly and her friends, in the tour of England
in two motor cars, decided them to escape from that lady, and run away to
Paris. Before they could sigh in relief at their freedom, however, the
Alexanders loomed again on their horizon.

Plan as they would, the badgered tourists found that Mrs. Alexander had
annexed herself permanently to them. They resigned themselves to the
inevitable. But that carried with it more ridiculous affairs, when Mrs.
Alexander plotted for the titles found dangling before her, in various
places on the Continent.

One good result came from this association with the Alexanders: Dodo
found how fascinating the work of collecting really was, and decided to
study decorating as an art. Hence she spurned her mother's ambitions for
her, and announced her plan of remaining in New York with the girls, upon
their return to America, to follow in their line of study.

Mrs. Alexander fel