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BY
EVELYN RAYMOND
NEW YORK
HURST & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1906, by
GEORGE W. JACOBS & COMPANY
Published August, 1906
All rights reserved
Printed in U. S. A.
CONTENTS | ||
I. | The One Room House | 9 |
II. | After the Colonel’s Visit | 25 |
III. | In Elbow Lane | 47 |
IV. | Beside Old Trinity | 59 |
V. | A Desolate Awakening | 77 |
VI. | The Beginning of the Search | 93 |
VII. | A Guardian Angel | 111 |
VIII. | With Bonny as Guide | 125 |
IX. | In the Ferry-House | 143 |
X. | Another Stage of the Journey | 155 |
XI. | A Haven of Refuge | 177 |
XII. | News from the Lane | 201 |
XIII. | The Wonderful Ending | 217 |
It was in “the littlest house in Ne’ York” thatGlory lived, with grandpa and Bo’sn, the dog, so she, and its owner,often boasted; and whether this were actually true or not, it certainlywas so small that no other sort of tenant than the blind captain couldhave bestowed himself, his grandchild, and their few belongings init.
A piece-of-pie shaped room, built to utilize a scant, triangularspace between two big warehouses, only a few feet wide at the front andno width at all at the rear. Its ceiling was also its roof and from itdangled whatever could be hung thus, while the remaining bits offurniture swung from hooks in the walls. Whenever out of use, even thelittle gas-stove