The Camerons of Highboro

The Camerons of Highboro

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The Camerons of Highboro by Beth Bradford Gilchrist

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1919

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Elliott Cameron, a petted American girl, has come to Highboro while her father goes to Europe for a year on war business for the Government. But she has gone reluctantly, and means to leave as soon as the quarantine is lifted from her Uncle James's house, where her cousin Quincy has come down with scarlet fever. Stannard, Quincy's brother, has preceded her to Highboro. Elliott, motherless from babyhood, has always had her own way, and she inwardly rebels at visiting these Cameron relatives whom she has never met. Yet she cannot help liking Uncle Bob and Aunt Jessica and all the Highboro cousins, from Laura, eighteen, to Priscilla, aged eight, including an unexplained boy called Bruce Fearing. But for all that she was homesick, quite desperately homesick, and would certainly have cried herself to sleep that first night if Laura and Gertrude and Aunt Jessica hadn't come in to sit on the bed and talk.

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, that escaped her. She had heard of Mr. Robert Cameron; but whether he resided in Kamchatka or Timbuctoo she could not have told you. Mr. Robert Cameron, she had adduced with an acumen beyond her years, was the unsuccessful member of a highly successful family. And now Elliott, adorable Elliott, was to be marooned in this uncharted district for a whole year. It was unthinkable!

"But, Elliott darling, you'd die in Vermont!"

"Oh, no!" said Elliott; "I don't think I should find it pleasant, but I shouldn't die."

"Pleasant!" sniffed Miss Royce. "I should say not."

"It is rather far away from everybody. Think of not seeing you for a year, Bess!"

"I don't want to think of it. What's the matter with your Uncle James's house when the quarantine's lifted?"

"Nothing. But it has only just been put on."

"And the tournament next week. You can't miss that! Oh, Elliott!"

"I think," remarked Elliott pensively, "there ought to be a ho

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