Campus Mystery," which is the second volume of the Ruth Fielding
Series.

And now another frolic was in immediate prospect. Mr. Cameron, who
was a very wealthy dry-goods merchant, had purchased a winter camp
deep in the wilderness, up toward the Canadian line, and Christmas
itself now being over, Helen and Tom had obtained his permission to
take a party of their friends with them to the lodge in the backwoods
--Snow Camp.

It was really Helen's party. Besides Ruth, she had invited Madge
Steele, Jennie Stone, Belle Tingley, and Lluella Fairfax to be of the
party. She had invited one other girl from Briarwood, too; but Mary
Cox had refused the invitation. "The Fox," as her school-fellows
called her, had been under a cloud at the end of the term, and
perhaps she might have felt somewhat abashed had she joined the party
of her school-fellows at Snow Camp.

Tom had invited his chum at school, who was Madge Steele's brother
Bob, and another boy named Isadore Phelps. With Mr. Cameron himself
and Mrs. Murchiston, the lady who had been the twins' governess when
they were small, and several servants, the party were to take train
at Cheslow the next day for the northern wilderness.

The trio of friends, as they hurried across Hiram Bassett's pasture,
were full of happy anticipations regarding the proposed trip, and
they chatted merrily as they went on. Halfway across the field they
passed along the edge of a bush-bordered hollow. Their skating caps--
Tom's white, Ruth's blue, and Helen's of a brilliant scarlet--bobbed
up and down beside the hedge, and anybody upon the other side, in the