The Imprudence of Prue

The Imprudence of Prue
By SOPHIE FISHER
With Four Illustrations By HERMAN PFEIFER
A. L. BURT COMPANY PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT 1911 THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
THE IMPRUDENCE OF PRUE
CHAPTER I
THE PRICE OF A KISS
Stand and deliver!
The words rang out in the gathering darkness of the February evening. The jaded horses, exhausted with dragging a cumbrous chariot through the miry lanes and rugged by-roads of the rough moorland, obeyed the command with promptitude, disregarding the lash of the postboy and the valiant oaths of a couple of serving-men in the rumble.