The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge; Or, the Hermit of Moonlight Falls
1921
The Outdoor Girls at Wild Rose Lodge; Or, the Hermit of Moonlight Falls
1921
Four friends. One vanishing hermit. A summer that changes everything. Betty, Mollie, Grace, and Amy are tearing across the countryside in Mollie's car when disaster strikes - a massive tree crashes toward them in a storm of wind and wood. A stranger's voice shouts a warning, and a weathered old man materializes from the rain, pulling them to safety. Professor Arnold Dempsey is a recluse, a former academic whose grief has driven him to the mountains. The girls sense something broken behind his gruffness, and their suspicions are confirmed when they learn the terrible truth: his two sons died in the war's final days. Weeks later, the girls return to check on him and find only destruction - his cabin wrecked, the professor vanished, neighbors whispering that grief drove him mad. Armed only with their nerve and their loyalty to a man they barely know, the girls set out for Wild Rose Lodge, determined to unravel the mystery of Moonlight Falls before summer ends. This 1921 adventure captures something enduring: the fierce, fearless friendship of girls who refuse to look away from trouble. For readers who crave wholesome adventure with real heart.
