The Mystery at Number Six by Augusta Huiell Seaman CH 3 Jerry Saw-Grass Entertains Teen Mystery.
chapter four of mystery at number six this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org the mystery at number six by augusta hewell seaman chapter four many speculations and one certainty in the sweet scented darkness of the hotel porch that evening bernice and sydney discussed and rediscussed the strange happenings of the afternoon bernice and her parents were staying at the little hotel temporarily while a bungalow was being found for their occupation near that of sydney's parents a south florida phosphate town is a curious mushroom growth designed only for those engaged in the working of the phosphate mine or factory and the most recent comers must always put up with the accommodations of the little hotel till their own bungalows are either constructed or vacated by departing occupants the two young people were much divided in their opinions in regard to their new acquaintance but she can't deny that she's certainly very unlike those other two that she lives with asserted bernice for the half-dozen time yes she's different i admit replied the more cautious sydney at least she's very different from the cracker woman how different she is from jerry i can't tell as he had so little to say they tell me he's very intelligent though but what's the meaning of her being so mysterious and wanting us not to let them know when we come i warn they're not kind to her and she wants to get away from them somehow bernice was a little irritated at sydney's inability to see the thing from her point of view if she wanted very much to get away all she'd have to do would be to run off and give herself into the hands of the authorities if she could prove that they've ill used her or anything like that no one would make her go back to them no if she wanted that she'd have had plenty of opportunity replied cindy skeptically but perhaps she doesn't know enough especially if she's lived in the everglades all her life did you notice what good english she used hardly a single grammatical mistake where did she ever learn it that i can't figure out unless jerry is some sort of scholar which isn't likely i know there are no schools in that wilderness and not a soul lives there except the seminole indians and they're an ignorant lot they are the only really wild indians left in the united states once in a while they come into miami or fort lauderdale or even kissimmee to trade but most of them can hardly speak a word of english no that is a puzzle sydney had to admit well it isn't the only one by any means insisted bernice how do you account for the way she acted when you spoke of jarius her father she was positively indignant though she admitted that she called him uncle calling people uncle doesn't mean a thing down south here every other old [ __ ] is uncle or aunt something or other but anyhow he's told people she was his niece and it may be really true i don't believe it cried bernice she's no half breed she has dark hair and a dark sunburned complexion but her eyes are the bluest things i ever saw perfectly beautiful i'll never believe she has a drop of indian blood in her then will you tell me how she came to be in the everglades at all demanded sydney rather exasperated that bernice should try to make a mystery out of what he thought could be easily explained her blue eyes came from her white ancestry that doesn't prove anything and no one but an indian or part indian like jerry could possibly have lived in the everglades all their lives so there but bernice chose to ignore this retort what do you suppose was the reason that they don't like her to have much to do with strangers she mused she even said they might move away if they thought she was trying to that looks to me as if something was well queer about it don't you think so it may or it may be...

The Mystery at Number Six by Augusta Huiell Seaman CH 3 Jerry Saw-Grass Entertains Teen Mystery.
chapter four of mystery at number six this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org the mystery at number six by augusta hewell seaman chapter four many speculations and one certainty in the sweet scented darkness of the hotel porch that evening bernice and sydney discussed and rediscussed the strange happenings of the afternoon bernice and her parents were staying at the little hotel temporarily while a bungalow was being found for their occupation near that of sydney's parents a south florida phosphate town is a curious mushroom growth designed only for those engaged in the working of the phosphate mine or factory and the most recent comers must always put up with the accommodations of the little hotel till their own bungalows are either constructed or vacated by departing occupants the two young people were much divided in their opinions in regard to their new acquaintance but she can't deny that she's certainly very unlike those other two that she lives with asserted bernice for the half-dozen time yes she's different i admit replied the more cautious sydney at least she's very different from the cracker woman how different she is from jerry i can't tell as he had so little to say they tell me he's very intelligent though but what's the meaning of her being so mysterious and wanting us not to let them know when we come i warn they're not kind to her and she wants to get away from them somehow bernice was a little irritated at sydney's inability to see the thing from her point of view if she wanted very much to get away all she'd have to do would be to run off and give herself into the hands of the authorities if she could prove that they've ill used her or anything like that no one would make her go back to them no if she wanted that she'd have had plenty of opportunity replied cindy skeptically but perhaps she doesn't know enough especially if she's lived in the everglades all her life did you notice what good english she used hardly a single grammatical mistake where did she ever learn it that i can't figure out unless jerry is some sort of scholar which isn't likely i know there are no schools in that wilderness and not a soul lives there except the seminole indians and they're an ignorant lot they are the only really wild indians left in the united states once in a while they come into miami or fort lauderdale or even kissimmee to trade but most of them can hardly speak a word of english no that is a puzzle sydney had to admit well it isn't the only one by any means insisted bernice how do you account for the way she acted when you spoke of jarius her father she was positively indignant though she admitted that she called him uncle calling people uncle doesn't mean a thing down south here every other old [ __ ] is uncle or aunt something or other but anyhow he's told people she was his niece and it may be really true i don't believe it cried bernice she's no half breed she has dark hair and a dark sunburned complexion but her eyes are the bluest things i ever saw perfectly beautiful i'll never believe she has a drop of indian blood in her then will you tell me how she came to be in the everglades at all demanded sydney rather exasperated that bernice should try to make a mystery out of what he thought could be easily explained her blue eyes came from her white ancestry that doesn't prove anything and no one but an indian or part indian like jerry could possibly have lived in the everglades all their lives so there but bernice chose to ignore this retort what do you suppose was the reason that they don't like her to have much to do with strangers she mused she even said they might move away if they thought she was trying to that looks to me as if something was well queer about it don't you think so it may or it may be...

The Boarded up House 6 Joyce's Theory Free Teens Library Public Domain Mystery Audiobooks.
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the boarded up house by augusta hewell seaman chapter six joyce's theory

cynthia what's your theory about the mystery of the boarded up house the two girls were sitting in a favorite nook of theirs under an old bent apple tree in the yard back of the boarded up house on a sunny morning a week later they were supposed to be cramming for the monthly exams and had their books spread out all around them cynthia looked up with a frown from an irregular latin conjugation what's a theory why you know in conan doyle's mystery story sherlock holmes always has a theory about what has happened before he really knows that is he makes up a story of his own from the few things he has found out before he gets at the whole truth well replied cynthia laying aside her latin grammar since you ask me my theory is that someone committed a murder in that room we can't get in and then locked it up and went away and had the house all boarded up so it wouldn't be discovered i've lane awake nights thinking of it and i just as leaf not get into that room if it's so joyce broke into a peel of laughter oh cynthia if that isn't exactly like you who but you would have thought of such a thing i don't see anything queer about it retorted cynthia doesn't everything point that way certainly not cynthia sprague do you suppose that even years and years ago anyone in a big house like this could commit a murder and then calmly lock up and walk away and the matter never be investigated that's absurd the murdered person would be missed and people would wonder why the place was left like this and the the authorities would get in here in a hurry no there wasn't any murder or anything bloodthirsty at all something very different well since you don't like my theory replied cynthia still nettled what's yours of course you have one yes i have one and i've lane awake nights too thinking it out i'll tell you what it is and if you don't agree with me you're free to say so here's the way it all seems to me whatever happened in that house must have concerned two persons at least and one of them you must admit was our lovely lady whose portrait hangs in the library her room and clothes and lockets show that she looks very young but she must have been someone of importance in the house probably the mistress or she wouldn't have occupied the biggest bedroom and had her picture on the wall you think that much is alright don't you cynthia nodded then there's someone else that one we don't know anything at all about but it isn't hard to guess that it was the person whose picture is turned to the wall and whose miniature was in the locket and who probably occupied the locked up room that person must have been some near and dear relation of the lovely ladies surely but what we can't tell yet it might be mother father sister brother husband son or daughter any of these the lovely lady i'll have to call her that because we don't know her name was giving a party and everyone was at dinner when word was suddenly brought to her about this relative or perhaps the person was right there and did something that displeased her i can't tell which whatever it was bad news either way it could only have been one of two things either the relative was dead or had done something awful and disgraceful anyhow the lovely lady was so terribly shocked by it that she dismissed her dinner party right away i don't suppose she felt it right to do it it was not very polite but probably excusable under the circumstances maybe she fainted away suggested cynthia practically ladies were always doing that years ago especially when they heard bad news good enough agreed joyce i never thought of it she probably did of course...

The Boarded up House 6 Joyce's Theory Free Teens Library Public Domain Mystery Audiobooks.
chapter 6 of the boarded up house this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org

the boarded up house by augusta hewell seaman chapter six joyce's theory

cynthia what's your theory about the mystery of the boarded up house the two girls were sitting in a favorite nook of theirs under an old bent apple tree in the yard back of the boarded up house on a sunny morning a week later they were supposed to be cramming for the monthly exams and had their books spread out all around them cynthia looked up with a frown from an irregular latin conjugation what's a theory why you know in conan doyle's mystery story sherlock holmes always has a theory about what has happened before he really knows that is he makes up a story of his own from the few things he has found out before he gets at the whole truth well replied cynthia laying aside her latin grammar since you ask me my theory is that someone committed a murder in that room we can't get in and then locked it up and went away and had the house all boarded up so it wouldn't be discovered i've lane awake nights thinking of it and i just as leaf not get into that room if it's so joyce broke into a peel of laughter oh cynthia if that isn't exactly like you who but you would have thought of such a thing i don't see anything queer about it retorted cynthia doesn't everything point that way certainly not cynthia sprague do you suppose that even years and years ago anyone in a big house like this could commit a murder and then calmly lock up and walk away and the matter never be investigated that's absurd the murdered person would be missed and people would wonder why the place was left like this and the the authorities would get in here in a hurry no there wasn't any murder or anything bloodthirsty at all something very different well since you don't like my theory replied cynthia still nettled what's yours of course you have one yes i have one and i've lane awake nights too thinking it out i'll tell you what it is and if you don't agree with me you're free to say so here's the way it all seems to me whatever happened in that house must have concerned two persons at least and one of them you must admit was our lovely lady whose portrait hangs in the library her room and clothes and lockets show that she looks very young but she must have been someone of importance in the house probably the mistress or she wouldn't have occupied the biggest bedroom and had her picture on the wall you think that much is alright don't you cynthia nodded then there's someone else that one we don't know anything at all about but it isn't hard to guess that it was the person whose picture is turned to the wall and whose miniature was in the locket and who probably occupied the locked up room that person must have been some near and dear relation of the lovely ladies surely but what we can't tell yet it might be mother father sister brother husband son or daughter any of these the lovely lady i'll have to call her that because we don't know her name was giving a party and everyone was at dinner when word was suddenly brought to her about this relative or perhaps the person was right there and did something that displeased her i can't tell which whatever it was bad news either way it could only have been one of two things either the relative was dead or had done something awful and disgraceful anyhow the lovely lady was so terribly shocked by it that she dismissed her dinner party right away i don't suppose she felt it right to do it it was not very polite but probably excusable under the circumstances maybe she fainted away suggested cynthia practically ladies were always doing that years ago especially when they heard bad news good enough agreed joyce i never thought of it she probably did of course...

The Boarded up House 5 Discovery Free Teens Library Public Domain Mystery Audiobooks.

chapter 5 of the boarded up house this is a liver box recording all liver box recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit liverbox.org recording by jeannie whitfield the boarded up house by augusta ewell seaman chapter 5 joyce makes a new discovery so does goliath yes the door was locked and there was no vestige of a key joyce was suddenly inspired with an idea let's try the keys of the other doors i noticed that they most all had keys in the locks perhaps one will fit this they hunted up several and worked with them all but not one made the slightest impression on the obstinate lock now is it this provoking exclaimed joyce the only room in the house that we can't get in and the most interesting of all i'm certain what shall we do cynthia made no reply but looked at her little silver watch do you know that it's quarter past six she asked quietly mercy no we've got to go at once then now the time has gone reluctantly enough they hunted up goliath who in thorough boredom had returned to his place on the hearth rug in the big bedroom gathered together their candles and found their way to the cellar cynthia had thoughtfully requested a tin biscuit box from the grocer and in this they packed their candles thus protecting them against the ravages of mice and left them in the cellar near the window then they clambered out tomorrow's saturday said joyce in the morning we'll go to the library and look up that book of costumes after lunch we'll go back to the buh and finish exploring there's the attic yet and maybe we can find that key too with a gay goodbye they separated each to her home on opposite sides of the boarded up house the result of their researches in the library next morning was not wholly satisfactory they found that the most recent fashion of hoop skirts or crinolines had prevailed all the way from 1840 to 1870 or thereabouts and while these dates limited to a certain extent the time of the mysterious happening it did not help them very much they felt that they must look for some more definite clue that afternoon they entered the boarded up house for the third time they found goliath already in the cellar owing no doubt to the fact that bates pup was patrolling the front yard so they invited him to accompany them an invitation which he accepted with arched back and resounding purr deciding to explore the attic first they found that a door from the upper hall opened on a stairway leading to it at any other time or in any other house they would have found this attic of absorbing interest in its dusky corners stood spinning wheels and winding reels decrepit furniture of an ancient date had found a refuge here antique care trunks lined the sides under the eaves and quaint garments hung about on pegs the attic was the only apartment in this strange house that received the light of day for the two little windows like staring eyes were not boarded up so dim were they however with dirt and cobwebs that very little daylight filtered through but the attic had no great holding interest at presence since it was evident that it contained no clue to help them in the solution of the mystery and they soon left it to search anew every room below in the hope of coming upon the missing key these old-fashioned keys are so immense that it hardly seems possible that anyone would carry one off or conjecture joyce but why in the world should just that room be locked anyway what can be hidden there i'm wild simply wild with impatience to see it all the search for the key was not exactly systematic neither of the girls felt at liberty to open bureau drawers or pry into closets and trunks besides as cynthia wisely suggested it was not likely that anyone would lock a door so carefully and then put the key in a drawer or a trunk or on a shelf they would either carry it away with them or lay it down forgotten...

The Boarded up House 5 Discovery Free Teens Library Public Domain Mystery Audiobooks.

chapter 5 of the boarded up house this is a liver box recording all liver box recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit liverbox.org recording by jeannie whitfield the boarded up house by augusta ewell seaman chapter 5 joyce makes a new discovery so does goliath yes the door was locked and there was no vestige of a key joyce was suddenly inspired with an idea let's try the keys of the other doors i noticed that they most all had keys in the locks perhaps one will fit this they hunted up several and worked with them all but not one made the slightest impression on the obstinate lock now is it this provoking exclaimed joyce the only room in the house that we can't get in and the most interesting of all i'm certain what shall we do cynthia made no reply but looked at her little silver watch do you know that it's quarter past six she asked quietly mercy no we've got to go at once then now the time has gone reluctantly enough they hunted up goliath who in thorough boredom had returned to his place on the hearth rug in the big bedroom gathered together their candles and found their way to the cellar cynthia had thoughtfully requested a tin biscuit box from the grocer and in this they packed their candles thus protecting them against the ravages of mice and left them in the cellar near the window then they clambered out tomorrow's saturday said joyce in the morning we'll go to the library and look up that book of costumes after lunch we'll go back to the buh and finish exploring there's the attic yet and maybe we can find that key too with a gay goodbye they separated each to her home on opposite sides of the boarded up house the result of their researches in the library next morning was not wholly satisfactory they found that the most recent fashion of hoop skirts or crinolines had prevailed all the way from 1840 to 1870 or thereabouts and while these dates limited to a certain extent the time of the mysterious happening it did not help them very much they felt that they must look for some more definite clue that afternoon they entered the boarded up house for the third time they found goliath already in the cellar owing no doubt to the fact that bates pup was patrolling the front yard so they invited him to accompany them an invitation which he accepted with arched back and resounding purr deciding to explore the attic first they found that a door from the upper hall opened on a stairway leading to it at any other time or in any other house they would have found this attic of absorbing interest in its dusky corners stood spinning wheels and winding reels decrepit furniture of an ancient date had found a refuge here antique care trunks lined the sides under the eaves and quaint garments hung about on pegs the attic was the only apartment in this strange house that received the light of day for the two little windows like staring eyes were not boarded up so dim were they however with dirt and cobwebs that very little daylight filtered through but the attic had no great holding interest at presence since it was evident that it contained no clue to help them in the solution of the mystery and they soon left it to search anew every room below in the hope of coming upon the missing key these old-fashioned keys are so immense that it hardly seems possible that anyone would carry one off or conjecture joyce but why in the world should just that room be locked anyway what can be hidden there i'm wild simply wild with impatience to see it all the search for the key was not exactly systematic neither of the girls felt at liberty to open bureau drawers or pry into closets and trunks besides as cynthia wisely suggested it was not likely that anyone would lock a door so carefully and then put the key in a drawer or a trunk or on a shelf they would either carry it away with them or lay it down forgotten...

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Room of Mystery The Boarded up House 4 Free Teens Library Public Domain Audiobooks

The Boarded Up House by Augusta Huiell Ch 3 Seaman Free Teens-Audiobook Mysteries.
chapter 3 of the boarded up house this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by linda lee paquette

the boarded up house by augusta huell seaman chapter 3 amateur detectives

while cynthia was bending over her desk during study hour struggling with a hopelessly entangled account in latin of caesar and his gaelic wars her next neighbor thrust a note into her hand glad of any diversion she opened it and read this afternoon for the b-u-h how much pocket money have you j cynthia had no difficulty in guessing the meaning of the initials but she could not imagine what pocket money had to do with the matter so she wrote back all right only 30 cents more next week c she passed it along to joyce at the other end of the room and returned to caesar in a more cheerful frame of mind joyce she knew would explain all mysteries later and she was content to wait almost a week had passed since the first adventure of the boarded up house and nothing further had happened joyce and cynthia were healthy normal girls full of interests connected with their school with outdoor affairs and with social life so they had much to occupy them besides this curious quest on which they had to become engaged a fraternity meeting had occupied one afternoon dancing school another a tramping excursion a third and so on through the ensuing week not once however in the midst of all these outside interests had they forgotten their strange adventure when they were alone together they talked of it incessantly and laid elaborate plans for future amateur detective work it's just like a story joyce would exclaim and who would ever have thought of a story in that old boarded up house and us in the midst of it cynthia's first question that afternoon on the way home from high school was what did you ask about pocket money for i'm down pretty low on my allowance but i don't see what that's got to do with things joyce laughed well i'm lower yet ten cents to last till the months out but hasn't it struck you that we've got to have candles plenty of them and matches and a couple of candlesticks at least how else can we ever get about the place pitch dark as it all is and if we tried to get them from home someone would suspect right away cents worth of candles ought to last us quite a while began the practical cynthia and ten cents more will buy a whole package of safety matches and for five cents we can get a candlestick but we'd better stop at one for the present or we won't have a cent left between us let's get them right now while they were making their purchases cynthia had another idea i'll tell you what joyce i'm going to take along a dust cloth and clean up around the window where we get in my sweater was just black with dirt and cobwebs last time and mother almost insisted on an explanation fortunately she was called away for something just then and afterward didn't think of it i've washed the sweater since good idea ascended joyce momzy wanted to know how i'd torn mine and got it so messy too i told her i'd been chasing up goliath which was really quite true you know i never can think of things to say that will be the truth and yet not to give the whole thing away besides the downright cynthia i wish i were as quick as you never mind you've got the sense cynthia i never would have thought of the dust cloth getting into the boarded up house this time was accompanied by less difficulty than the first before entering cynthia thoroughly dusted the window ledge and as far about it as she could reach with the result that there was less if any damage to their clothes armed as they were with plenty of candles and matches there were no shutters either or fears of the unknown and the dark even cynthia was keen for the quest and joyce was simply bursting with new...

The Boarded Up House by Augusta Huiell Ch 3 Seaman Free Teens-Audiobook Mysteries.
chapter 3 of the boarded up house this is a librivox recording all librivox recordings are in the public domain for more information or to volunteer please visit librivox.org recording by linda lee paquette

the boarded up house by augusta huell seaman chapter 3 amateur detectives

while cynthia was bending over her desk during study hour struggling with a hopelessly entangled account in latin of caesar and his gaelic wars her next neighbor thrust a note into her hand glad of any diversion she opened it and read this afternoon for the b-u-h how much pocket money have you j cynthia had no difficulty in guessing the meaning of the initials but she could not imagine what pocket money had to do with the matter so she wrote back all right only 30 cents more next week c she passed it along to joyce at the other end of the room and returned to caesar in a more cheerful frame of mind joyce she knew would explain all mysteries later and she was content to wait almost a week had passed since the first adventure of the boarded up house and nothing further had happened joyce and cynthia were healthy normal girls full of interests connected with their school with outdoor affairs and with social life so they had much to occupy them besides this curious quest on which they had to become engaged a fraternity meeting had occupied one afternoon dancing school another a tramping excursion a third and so on through the ensuing week not once however in the midst of all these outside interests had they forgotten their strange adventure when they were alone together they talked of it incessantly and laid elaborate plans for future amateur detective work it's just like a story joyce would exclaim and who would ever have thought of a story in that old boarded up house and us in the midst of it cynthia's first question that afternoon on the way home from high school was what did you ask about pocket money for i'm down pretty low on my allowance but i don't see what that's got to do with things joyce laughed well i'm lower yet ten cents to last till the months out but hasn't it struck you that we've got to have candles plenty of them and matches and a couple of candlesticks at least how else can we ever get about the place pitch dark as it all is and if we tried to get them from home someone would suspect right away cents worth of candles ought to last us quite a while began the practical cynthia and ten cents more will buy a whole package of safety matches and for five cents we can get a candlestick but we'd better stop at one for the present or we won't have a cent left between us let's get them right now while they were making their purchases cynthia had another idea i'll tell you what joyce i'm going to take along a dust cloth and clean up around the window where we get in my sweater was just black with dirt and cobwebs last time and mother almost insisted on an explanation fortunately she was called away for something just then and afterward didn't think of it i've washed the sweater since good idea ascended joyce momzy wanted to know how i'd torn mine and got it so messy too i told her i'd been chasing up goliath which was really quite true you know i never can think of things to say that will be the truth and yet not to give the whole thing away besides the downright cynthia i wish i were as quick as you never mind you've got the sense cynthia i never would have thought of the dust cloth getting into the boarded up house this time was accompanied by less difficulty than the first before entering cynthia thoroughly dusted the window ledge and as far about it as she could reach with the result that there was less if any damage to their clothes armed as they were with plenty of candles and matches there were no shutters either or fears of the unknown and the dark even cynthia was keen for the quest and joyce was simply bursting with new...