Or The Mystery of the Wreck

    CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY

     Publishers

     New York

     Copyright

    , 1920,

    CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY

     Billie Bradley on Lighthouse Island

    PRINTED IN U. S. A.

    Contents

    BILLIE BRADLEY ON

    LIGHTHOUSE ISLAND

   Splash! went a big drop just on the exact tip of Laura Jordon’s pretty, rather upturned nose. She put her hand to the drop to be sure she had not been mistaken, then turned in dismay to her companions.

   “Girls,” she cried, “it’s raining!”

   If she had said the world was coming to an end her companions could not have looked more startled. Then Billie Bradley cocked an eye at what she could see of the sky through the trees and held out one hand experimentally.

   “You’re crazy,” she announced, turning an accusing eye upon Laura. “It’s no more raining than you are. And, anyway, haven’t we troubles enough without your going and making up a new one?”

   “M-making up!” Laura stuttered in her indignation. “If you don’t believe me, just look at my nose.”

   “I don’t see what your nose has to do with it,” Billie began scornfully, but the third of the trio, Violet Farrington, by name, interrupted.

   “Laura’s right,” she cried. “I just felt a great big 

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