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The Mystery of Lake Monster
GERTRUDE CHANDLER WARNER
Illustrated by Charles Tang
ALBERT WHITMAN & Company, Chicago
Contents
CHAPTER
1 Into the Wilderness
2 The Wild Man of the Woods
3 Here Be Monsters?
4 A Sound in the Dark
5 A Monster Hunt
6 Enormous Footprints
7 A Monster Bite
8 Suspects and Clues
9 A Monster-Maker
10 Who Loves Lucy?
About the Author
CHAPTER 1
Into the Wilderness
Benny Alden leaned forward to stare out the window. “Wow,” he said. “Look how tall all those mountains are!”
His brother, Henry, laughed. “Mountains are supposed to be tall, Benny. That’s why they’re called mountains.”
“How tall are these mountains?” Benny asked.
Violet Alden looked up from the book she was reading. “It says here that the tallest mountain in the Adirondacks is Mt. Marcy. It’s over five thousand feet tall.”
“How tall am I?” asked Benny. He was six years old.
“Not over four feet tall,” said Jessie Alden.
“I guess that these mountains are a lot taller than I am,” said Benny.
Everybody in the car laughed.
The Aldens were on their way to spend a week at Lucille Lodge on Lake Lucille, high in the Adirondack Mountains in New York State.
“Are we almost there, Grandfather?” asked Jessie.
“Almost,” he answered. Grandfather Alden slowed down and turned the car off the paved road onto a dirt road. The car bounced and bumped over the deep ruts. Tree branches clawed the windows.
The road twisted and turned, higher and higher. Benny could no longer see the tops of the mountains through the trees. At last Grandfather stopped in front of a huge wooden gate. On the gate, a carved sign said LUCILLE LODGE.
“I’ll open the gate,” said Jessie.
“I’ll help,” said Henry.
They jumped out of the car and opened the gate. After Grandfather Alden had driven through, they closed it again and hurried to get back into the car.
They followed the rough track through the trees, but still they didn’t see Lake Lucille or Lucille Lodge.
“We’re not lost, are we?” asked Violet.
“No,” said Grandfather. “Look.” He turned one more corner and the four Alden children gasped.
They were in a broad clearing. Ahead of them was a small, clear, beautiful lake, as blue as the sky it reflected. Steep walls of rock and wooded mountainside rose above it on every side. At the far end of the clearing right on the edge of the lake was an enormous two-story building made of wood. Wide porches with birch-branch railings ran around the building on the lower floor.
Grandfather drove forward and parked to one side of the buil ............

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