[“DO YOU KNOW, IT WAS LIKE A PIRATE’S SHIP”]

LAUGHING LAST

BY

JANE ABBOTT

AUTHOR OF

HIGHACRES, KEINETH, RED ROBIN, Etc.

ILLUSTRATED BY

E. CORINNE PAULI

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1924, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

TO

FRANCES STANTON SMITH

WHOSE LOYAL INTEREST IN MY WORK IS AN

UNFAILING HELP TO ME, I AFFECTIONATELY

DEDICATE THIS BOOK

CONTENTS

I[The Egg]
II[Rebellion]
III[Pola Lifts a Curtain]
IV[Sidney Digs for Cousins]
V[The Summer Will Tell Who Laughs Last]
VI[Sunset Lane]
VII[When Dreams Come True]
VIII[Mr. Dugald Explains]
IX[Sidney Tells “Dorothea”]
X[Maids]
XI[Independence]
XII[Sidney Belongs]
XIII[Plots and Counterplots]
XIV[Words that Sing]
XV[Cap’n Phin]
XVI[Pola]
XVII[Peacocks]
XVIII[“Hook”]
XIX[The Gleam]
XX[“There’s Something Wrong”]
XXI[What the Night Held]
XXII[“You Need a Big Brother”]
XXIII[Diamonds]
XXIV[What the Day Held]
XXV[No One Laughs Last]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[“Do You Know, It was Like a Pirate’s Ship”]

[Her Eyes Fell Upon an Entry on Another Page]

[Captain Davies Drew a Letter from His Pocket and Tapped It with His Finger]

[She Spied Approaching Figures—Trude and Mr. Dugald, Walking Slowly]