A Ticket to Adventure

A Ticket to Adventure - A Mystery Story for Girls by Roy J. Snell. Mary Hughes had walked the entire length of the long dock at Anchorage Alaska. Now having rounded a great pile of merchandise tents tractors groceries hammers axes and boxes of chocolate bars she came quite suddenly upon the oddest little man she had ever seen. Even for a girl in her late teens Mary was short and slender. This man was no larger than she.. “A Japanese� she thought as her surprised eyes took in his tight-fitting black suit his stiff collar and bright tie. “But no a Jap wouldn’t look like that.� She was puzzled and curious. At that particular moment she had nothing to do but indulge her curiosity.. Together with hundreds of other “home-seekers�—she smiled as she thought of herself as a home-seeker—she had been dumped into the bleak Arctic morning. Some of the goods that were being hoisted by a long steel crane from the depths of a ship belonged to Mary to Mark her brother and to Florence Huyler her cousin. There was for the time nothing they could do about that. So—