E-text prepared by Stephen Hutcheson, Rod Crawford, Dave Morgan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) During his absence she went back of the counter. BOBS, A GIRL DETECTIVE By CAROL NORTON By CAROL NORTON THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING COMPANY AKRON, OHIO NEW YORK AKRON, OHIO NEW YORK NEW YORK Copyright MCMXXVIII By THE SAALFIELD PUBLISHING CO. PRINTED IN U.S.A. Copyright MCMXXVIII PRINTED IN U.S.A. BOBS, A GIRL DETECTIVE CHAPTER I FOUR GIRLS FACE A PROBLEM FOUR GIRLS FACE A PROBLEM “Now that the crash is over and the last echo has ceased to reverberate through our ancestral halls, the problem before the house is what shall the family of Vandergrifts do next?” “Gloria, I do wish you wouldn’t stand there grinning like a Cheshire cat. There certainly is nothing amusing about the whirlwind of a catastrophe that we have just been through and are still in, for that matter.” Gwendolyn tapped her bronze-slippered toe impatiently as she sat in a luxuriously upholstered chair in what, until this past week, had been the library in the Long Island home of the proud family of Vandergrifts.
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