Plot

Jenny Barlow was spending a short holiday in the Austrian Alps with an old friend of her  family, Frau Schmidt, who ran  a small hotel in the village of Salaach. Frau Schmidt’s niece, Else, was also living in the hotel and the two girls had become friend’s immediately. But Jenny was aware that Else had a secret where she snuck out of hotel at midnight. Jenny had resolved to solve the mystery. She discovered Else was part of a secret league of girls who formed in memory of a brave mountain climber, their league badge was a flower of the gentian that grows wild in the mountain meadows. They would allow Jenny to join the league only if she passed five tests,  like the flower badge that had  five petals each represented a deed of bravery or daring.

Notes 

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Appeared

• The Violet Star (text) – Bunty: #294 (31 August 1963) – #300 (12 October 1963)