Once there, Nancy uses her aforementioned leadership skills and orders her two friends to leave the scene and contact the fire department while she will attempt to enter the burning building alone. Of course, they head straight for the disaster to rescue any inhabitants. (See page three for proof of that.) We also learn that if your car is rear-ended, it's smart to be very polite to the crappy driver behind you because he might be a Very Rich Factory Owner Who Has a Connection to Your Case.ĭriving home from the fair, the girls hear an explosion and witness a house burst into flame. Or maybe it's just that she's not a litterbug. She also "possessed an intangible appealing quality which people never forget." Maybe that quality has something to do with her willingness to be generous to the poor - assuming, of course, that they are attractive, polite and neat. Nancy's abilities of leadership were welcome and depended upon in any group.
She expressed her opinions firmly, but did not force them on others. She is also participating in the "crippled children's home kiddie show" and comes up with an "ingenious" plan to winnow out mail fraud. Not a lot of new skills, other than that Nancy knows a smattering of Swedish and can tell at a glance if something is written by a man or a woman AND whether or not a house can be saved from a fire. It should be noted that during that conversation, Bess ate at least three sandwiches and a deviled egg. I wonder if his letters-containing money orders-were stolen. "It's very mysterious, since apparently he has been away for some time. Swenson, or the money his wife told us he had promised to send?" "I'm worried about that darling Swenson child and her mother I wish we could do something to help them." Īs in The Secret of Red Gate Farm, the story begins with the three girls discussing a mystery:.
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