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Hour of Enchantment

Roy J. Snell

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .One would think—”

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She broke off short to stand on tiptoe like a bird poised for flight. Had she caught a sound from without, a shuffling of soft-padded feet on the stairs? Ah, yes. There! A board creaked.

Snapping off the light, she stood in the darkness, tense, alert, listening intently.

“That box!” Her thoughts were in a tumult. “Why do they want more? They have the best.

“Shall I throw open the door and thrust the box at them?

“Ah, no, I shall not do that. Mystery, how one yearns for it! And yet how one dreads it! This box, it is ours. We have bought it. We will fight for it. I will call Florence. She will throw them down the stairs.

“But no! She is weary. They may have the knife. The lock is strong. Let them spy upon us if they must.”

Jeanne was by nature a child of the night. To sit there in the dark, to think and think, to wait and wait for that whic. . . Read More

Community Reviews

This is another of Roy Snell's Mystery Stories for Girls. Florence Huyler and Petite Jeanne, the French gypsy, again star in this book that was published in 1933. It chronicles the Century of Progress World’s Fair in Chicago of 1933-1934. Florence works on Enchanted Island, the part of the fair that