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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                               