Jean Craig Finds Romance

Jean Craig had always wanted to be an artist. But when her family had moved to Woodhow in Connecticut, she had given up her art lessons. Later, when she was able to resume them, she realized how important a career was to her. But then Ralph McRae came along, and Jean found herself unable to make up her mind as to what she wanted most. And while Jean was trying to come to a decision, her sister Kit was having a fine adventure of her own out West.

Jean Craig Finds Romance is filled with gaiety and humor, another charming story of the wonderful, courageous Craigs and their family adventures.

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[Illustration: A startling procession came from the river.]

JEAN CRAIG FINDS ROMANCE

by KAY LYTTLETON

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Contents

1. Kit Traps a Thief 9

2. I Smell Smoke 21

3. The Important Letter 29

4. Kit’s Plan 36

5. Farewell Party 47

6. “The Boy’s” Arrival 55

7. The House Under the Bluff 70

8. A Square Deal 86

9. Hope College 98

10. The Surprise 109

11. The Mysterious Guest 121

12. Homesick 131

13. Frank Apologizes 138

14. The Secret in the Urn 150

15. Home Again 168

16. Visiting Celebrities 177

17. Frank to the Rescue 195

18. Jean’s Romance 206

JEAN CRAIG FINDS ROMANCE

1. Kit Traps a Thief

Kit was on lookout duty, and had been for the past hour and a half. The windows of one of the upstairs bedrooms commanded a view of a large part of the countryside, and from here she had done sentry duty over the huckleberry patch.

It lay to the northeast of the house, a great, rambling, rocky, ten-acre lot that straggled unevenly from the wood road down to the river. To the casual onlooker, it seemed just a patch of underbrush. There were half-grown-birches all over it, and now and then a little dwarf spruce tree or cluster of hazel bushes. But to the Craig family that ten-acre lot represented profit in the month of August when huckleberries and blueberries were ripe.

The Craig family were newcomers to the country, newcomers in the eyes of the natives of Elmhurst, Connecticut, for they had moved there a year and a half ago seeking peace and rest for Mr. Craig, who was slowly recovering from a nervous breakdown. The family’s adventures and problems in making their home in the country were told in Jean Craig Grows Up. Jean, eighteen and ambitious for an artist’s career, had spent part of the previous winter studying in a New York art school and her experiences there were described in Jean Craig in New York.

Sixteen-year-old Kit, in whom the spirit of adventure ran high, was watching suspiciously a trim-looking, red-wheeled, black-bodied truck, driven by a strange man, as it pulled up at the pasture bars and stopped. The man took out of the truck not a burlap bag, but a tan leather case and also something else that looked like a large box with a handle on it.

“Camouflage,” said Kit to herself, scornfully. “He’s going to fill them with our berries, and then make believe he’s selling books.”