Scarboro is the nearest railroad station to Snow Camp. What do you
think of that?"

Before Ruth could reply, the sound of an automobile horn was heard
outside, and both girls ran to the door. The Cameron automobile was
just coming down the hill from the direction of Cheslow, and in a
minute it stopped before the door of the Potter farmhouse.




CHAPTER III

THE NEWSPAPER CLIPPING


The Red Mill was a grist mill, and Mr. Jabez Potter made wheat-flour,
buckwheat, cornmeal, or ground any grist that was brought to him.
Standing on a commanding knoll beside the Lumano River, it was
very picturesquely situated, and the rambling old farmhouse connected
with it was a very homey-looking place indeed.

The automobile had stopped at the roadside before the kitchen door,
and Mr. Cameron alighted and started immediately up the straight path
to the porch. He was a round, jolly, red-faced man, who was forever
thinking of some surprise with which to please his boy and girl, and
seldom refused any request they might make of him. This plan of
taking a party of young folk into the backwoods for a couple of weeks
was entirely to amuse Tom and Helen. Personally, the dry-goods
merchant did not much care for such an outing.