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Title: The Blue Envelope

Author: Roy J. Snell

Release Date: May 20, 2007 [EBook #21539]

Language: English

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Produced by Al Haines

_Adventure Stories for Girls_

The Blue Envelope

By

ROY J. SNELL

Chicago

The Reilly & Lee Co.

Copyright, 1922

by

The Reilly & Lee Co.

All Rights Reserved

The Blue Envelope

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I A MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE
II A BOLD STROKE REWARDED
III THE MYSTERIOUS PHI BETA KI
IV FOR HE IS A WHITE MAN'S DOG
V CAST ADRIFT
VI THE DREAD WHITE LINE
VII THE BLUE ENVELOPE DISAPPEARS
VIII THE VISIT TO THE CHUKCHES
IX A CLOSE CALL
X FINDING THE TRAIL
XI "WITHOUT COMPASS OR GUIDE"
XII "WHAT IS THAT?"
XIII STRANGE DISCOVERIES
XIV A LONESOME ISLAND
XV TWO RED RIDING HOODS
XVI A FORTUNATE DISCOVERY
XVII OUT OF THE NIGHT
XVIII A NEW PERIL
XIX MYSTERIES EXPLAINED

FOREWORD

When considering the manuscript of "The Blue Envelope" my publishers
wrote me asking that I offer some sort of proof that the experiences of
Marian and Lucile might really have happened to two girls so situated.
My answer ran somewhat as follows:

Alaska, at least the northern part of it, is so far removed from the
rest of this old earth that it is almost as distinct from it as is the
moon. It's a good stiff nine-day trip to it by water and you sight
land only once in all that nine days. For nine months of winter you
are quite shut off from the rest of the world. Your mail comes once a
month, letters only, over an eighteen-hundred-mile dog trail; two
months and a half for letters to come; the same for the reply to go
back. Do you wonder, then, that the Alaskan, when going down to
Seattle, does not speak of it as going to Seattle or going down to the
States but as "going outside"? Going outside seems to just exactly
express it. When you have spent a year in Alaska you feel as if you
had truly been inside something for twelve