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"LOOK THERE!"
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Rathfelder's Hotel.
BY THE AUTHOR OF
"THE FISHERMAN'S DAUGHTER."
PHILADELPHIA:
PRESBYTERIAN BOARD OF PUBLICATION,
1334 CHESTNUT STREET.
CONTENTS
| Page | |
| CHAPTER I. | 3 |
| CHAPTER II. | 12 |
| CHAPTER III. | 20 |
| CHAPTER IV. | 25 |
| CHAPTER V. | 34 |
| CHAPTER VI. | 49 |
| CHAPTER VII. | 58 |
| CHAPTER VIII. | 62 |
| CHAPTER IX. | 74 |
| CHAPTER X. | 86 |
| CHAPTER XI. | 95 |
| CHAPTER XII. | 108 |
| CHAPTER XIII. | 121 |
| CHAPTER XIV. | 132 |
| CHAPTER XV. | 140 |
| CHAPTER XVI. | 154 |
| CHAPTER XVII. | 166 |
| UNCLE JOHN'S GIFT. | 183 |
| A GIRL WHO COULDN'T BE TRUSTED. | 193 |
| THE MOTHER'S LAST GIFT. | 202 |
| NOT THE BEST WAY. | 209 |
RATHFELDER'S HOTEL.
CHAPTER I.
Standing back beside the picturesque road encircling Windburg hill, nearCape Town, was a large, handsome house, rather long and high, however,according to the style of architecture usual in that stormy region ofthe world. The front windows on the ground floor opened out upon a broadterrace, or "stoop," as it is termed by the Dutch, shaded by a wideprojecting trellised roof, which roof was so thickly interlaced by vinesof the rich Constantia grape, the branches being then clustered overwith massive bunches of th