The Corner House Girls Among the Gypsies; How They Met, What Happened, and How It Ended (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...junkman and his claim. Nor did she mention the affair to any of the remainder of the Corner House family. She only added: "So don't you take the bracelet out of the house or let anybody at all have it--if Neale or I are not here." "Why, it would not be right to give the bracelet to anybody but the Gypsy ladies, would it?" said Tess. "Of course not," agreed Dot. "And they haven't come after it." Agnes did not notice these final comments of the two smaller girls. She had given them in-i structions, and those instructions were sufficient, she thought, to avert any trouble regarding the mysterious bracelet--whether it was "Queen Alma's" or not. The junkman, Costello, certainly had filled Agnes' mind with most romantic imaginations If the old silver bracelet was a Gypsy heirloom and had been handed down through the Costello tribe--as the junkman claimed--for three hundred years and more, of course it would not be considered stolen property. The mystery remained why the Gypsy women had left the bracelet in the basket they had almost forced upon the Kenway children. The explanation of this was quite beyond Agnes, unless it had been done because the Gypsy women feared that this very Costello was about to claim the heirloom, and they considered it safer with Tess and Dot than in their own possession. True, this seemed a far-fetched explanation of the affair; yet what so probable? The Gypsies might be quite familiar with Milton, and probably knew a good deal about the old Corner House and the family now occupying it. The little girls would of course be honest. The Gypsies were shrewd people. They were quite sure, no doubt, that the Kenways would not give the bracelet to any person but the women who sold the basket, u...