A Mystery Story for Girls
A TICKET TO
ADVENTURE
By
ROY J. SNELL
The Reilly & Lee Co.
Chicago
COPYRIGHT 1937
BY
THE REILLY & LEE CO.
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A.
CONTENTS
- CHAPTER PAGE
- I The Little Man in Black 11
- II The Indian Girl’s Warning 19
- III Seven Golden Candlesticks 37
- IV The Great Stump 59
- V Happy Landing 68
- VI A Wanderer Returns 76
- VII And Then Came Adventure 87
- VIII A Secret Is Told 101
- IX Help from the Sky 112
- X In Search of a Grandfather 121
- XI The Fresh-Dough Club 131
- XII Her Great Discovery 139
- XIII A Bright New Dream 149
- XIV “They Are Off” 157
- XV The Phantom Leader 165
- XVI The Golden Quest 178
- XVII The Black Seal’s Tooth 194
- XVIII To Be or Not to Be 206
- XIX Coasting Up Hill 216
- XX Black Waters and Gray Dogs 227
- XXI The Secret of the Great Stump 237
A TICKET TO ADVENTURE
CHAPTER I
THE LITTLE MAN IN BLACK
Mary Hughes had walked the entirelength of the long dock at Anchorage,Alaska. Now, having rounded a great pile ofmerchandise, tents, tractors, groceries, hammers,axes, and boxes of chocolate bars shecame quite suddenly upon the oddest littleman she had ever seen. Even for a girl in herlate teens, Mary was short and slender. Thisman was no larger than she.
“A Japanese,” she thought as her surprisedeyes took in his tight-fitting black suit, hisstiff collar and bright tie. “But no, a Japwouldn’t look like that.” She was puzzled andcurious. At that particular moment, she hadnothing to do but indulge her curiosity.
Together with hundreds of other “home-seekers”—shesmiled as she thought of herselfas a home-seeker—she had been dumped intothe bleak Arctic morning. Some of the goodsthat were being hoisted by a long steel cranefrom the depths of a ship, belonged to Mary,to Mark her brother, and to Florence