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THE LIFTED VEIL Next morning Marcia and Janet sallied forth to make their promised visit to Cecily. They were armed with a box of quinine pills, two glasses of currant jelly, a new magazine, Marcia&#…
MISS BENEDICT SPEAKS It was Miss Minerva who decided that Miss Benedict must be told about the coincidence of the two bracelets. "Certainly, she ought to know!" she declared positively. &qu…
VIA WIRELESS It was a week after the events of the last chapter. The girls had gone regularly every day to visit Cecily. It was Marcia who had finally mustered up courage to ask Miss Benedict if Ceci…
THE WRITING ON THE BRACELETS In the joy of seeing her father after months of absence Marcia almost forgot the mystery of Benedict's Folly. Almost—but not quite! Captain Brett had been at home tw…
PUZZLING IT OUT "To begin with," Captain Brett went on after a long and (to Janet and Marcia) very trying pause, "we've something to hold on to in just the date—Sept 25, 1889—and …
ONE MYSTERY EXPLAINED Meantime, Cecily Marlowe, immured in the lonely house, had been having an experience all her own. And when the girls came to see her, the day after the visit to the ship, she to…
MAJOR GOODRICH ASSISTS During the week following Aunt Minerva's departure, the two girls had a busy life, taking charge of the unaccustomed tasks of housekeeping. But with all their absorbing oc…
THE MAJOR HAS A FURTHER INSPIRATION The captain, who was puffing at his pipe, appeared serious. "I don't like the looks of this thing at all," he muttered, reaching in his pocket for t…
THE UNEXPECTED The major's letter did nothing, however, to lighten the gloom. On the contrary, it only increased it tenfold. The main substance of it was in this paragraph: It's singular ho…
AUNT MINERVA TAKES COMMAND For an entire week thereafter Aunt Minerva went her own mysterious way, calm and unruffled herself, but keeping the rest of her family on tenter-hooks of excitement. She wr…
