Beverly Gray:  Reporter, Writer, and Government Agent

It is not until Beverly is back in New York that she discovers that the package which was given to her contains the stolen military plans.  Beverly is afraid that the authorities will not believe her story so she goes to Charlie Blaine for advice.  He calls the authorities who ask Beverly to help them find the spies, who know that Beverly was given the plans.

Lois gets a job drawing designs for a major magazine, and Shirley returns to the theater as Dale Arden.  Beverly and Lenora discover that the Countess de la Fornay is the person who has the stolen tapestry.  The tapestry is recovered, but the Countess escapes.  Jim Stanton leaves for South America to take a job as an engineer, and Larry invites Beverly to visit his family in Maine.  Larry's invitation coincides with Phyllis Tanner's trip to see a property that she has inherited in Maine, so both Beverly and Lenora prepare to travel to Maine.  Beverly will stay with Larry's family, and Lenora will stay with Phyllis.

Shirley drives to Maine because the injury of two of the actors has closed her play indefinitely.  Shirley is displeased after her arrival when she learns that Roger Garrett is to be staying in Maine as well.  Shirley was engaged briefly to Roger and broke off the engagement for unknown reasons.  Meanwhile, Lenora and Phyllis hear mysterious voices in Phyllis's house and wonder if it could be haunted.

Beverly discovers that Sally and the others are producing her play without her knowledge.  She is not angry and feels that she will be able to see if the play is any good.  The performance is quite a success, in spite of a raging hurricane.  After the performance, Shirley and Roger are injured in the collapse of the barn they used for the play and are taken to the hospital, where they reconcile and renew their engagement.  The friends go back to New York, where they learn that their old friend Ada Collins is in trouble.  Beverly helps Ada to resolve her problems, and Ada learns that she has a teaching position waiting for her at Vernon College.  Finally, Beverly learns that she had misunderstood Larry's conversation with Sally when Larry shows her the house he intends to buy for Beverly and himself to live in someday when they marry.

The group begins the trek through the jungle and soon locates Larry's plane.  They can find no sign of Larry or Michael, so they conclude that there is still hope and continue the search.  Jim asks their guide, Manuel, how to find the emerald.  Manuel refuses to reveal the emerald's location because the emerald is cursed.  Manuel leads the group part of the way to the emerald and then leaves the search expedition.

When the Susabella leaves South America, a friend of Larry's, Lieutenant Cary, joins the group.  When Lieutenant Cary leaves the Susabella in Havana, Beverly goes to warn him that someone is following him.  Beverly immediately finds herself in danger as both she and Cary are chased by spies.  Beverly is shocked when she sees that one of their pursuers is the Countess de la Fornay.  Cary is injured in a car crash, and Beverly has to fly some important papers back into the United States.  After turning the papers over to the military, Beverly returns to New York shortly before her friends arrive on the Susabella.

Beverly, Lenora, True Torsten, Sir Charles, and Prince Einar are invited to visit Miss Colfax at her mountain lodge.  During their stay, the girls hear that a plane in which Virginia Harris is working as stewardess has crashed somewhere in the area.  Beverly and Lenora use Miss Colfax's plane to locate the wreck.  They are unable to land, so Lenora parachutes out while Beverly goes for help.  Lenora finds the passengers and crew, and by the next day, help has arrived.

Back in New York, a popular, mysterious masked dancer will never let anyone photograph her without her mask.  Beverly correctly guesses that True is the dancer.  She decides not to turn True in after True convinces her that she will no longer steal.  Beverly soon learns that she has a rival reporter named Kay Merrill who works for another paper.  Both girls compete for the same stories, and quite often Kay scoops Beverly.  The girls cross paths for the first time when the town of Vernon is flooded and are destined to cross paths many times in the near future.

Beverly finds it very difficult to keep her secret from her friends, especially from Lenora, Shirley, and Larry.  All three are hurt by Beverly's unwillingness to discuss what she is doing.  Beverly's secret begins to unravel when rival reporter Kay Merrill sees Beverly at Kresloff's house and questions her about her actions.  Kay later tells Lenora that Beverly is working as Kresloff's secretary.  Kay and Lenora decide to try to help Beverly.

Beverly and Lenora enter Kresloff's home to encounter the Countess.  Kresloff locks all three of them in a secret passageway, but the three are freed by Kresloff's butler who is a secret service agent.  Kresloff is captured, but the Countess escapes.  Larson and the Countess are captured later due to the efforts of Beverly and Lenora.  After the situation with Kresloff is resolved, the girls plan a trip Montana so that Shirley can inspect a property that she has inherited from her uncle.