"'We four,' declared the Skeptic, 'constitute a private Court of Inquiry
into the Condition of Our Friends'"

A COURT
OF INQUIRY

By GRACE S. RICHMOND

Author of "Red Pepper Burns," "Mrs. Red Pepper,"
"Second Violin," Etc.

WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS

A. L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS

114-120 East Twenty-third Street—New York

Published by Arrangement with Doubleday, Page & Co.

Copyright, 1909, 1916, by
Doubleday, Page & Company

All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian

COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY PERRY MASON COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY PERRY MASON COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1908, 1909, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

TO

C. R. P. and M. B. P.

[CONTENTS]

Part I

PAGE
[I.][Althea][3]
[II.][Camellia][16]
[III.][Dahlia][31]
[IV.][Rhodora][44]
[V.][Azalea][58]
[VI.][Hepatica][72]

Part II

[I.][Dahlia and the Professor][87]
[II.][Camellia and the Judge][102]
[III.][Azalea and the Cashier][117]
[IV.][Althea and the Promoter][131]
[V.][Rhodora and the Preacher][146]
[VI.][Wistaria—and the Philosopher][162]

Part III

[I.][Sixteen Miles to Boswell's][181]
[II.][Honour and the Girl][220]
[III.][Their Word of Honour][241]
[IV.]["Half a League Onward"][261]

[PART I]