JAN AND HER JOB

L. ALLEN HARKER
AUTHOR OF "A ROMANCE OF THE NURSERY"; "MISS ESPERANCE AND MR. WYCHERLY";
"MR. WYCHERLY'S WARDS"; "THE FFOLLIOTS OF REDMARLEY," ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1917

Published March, 1917

TO
F. R. P.

"Chary of praise and prodigal of counsel—
Who but thou?"

R. L. S.

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	Jan	[1]
II.	Jan's Mail	[13]
III.	Bombay	[19]
IV.	The Beginning of the Job	[39]
V.	The Children	[52]
VI.	The Shadow Before	[62]
VII.	The Human Touch	[78]
VIII.	The End of the Dream	[91]
IX.	Meg	[97]
X.	Plans	[124]
XI.	The State of Peter	[139]
XII.	"The Best-Laid Schemes"	[149]
XIII.	The Wheels of Chance	[162]
XIV.	Perplexities	[173]
XV.	Wren's End	[184]
XVI.	"The Bludgeonings of Chance"	[201]
XVII.	"Though an Host Should Encamp Against Me"	[212]
XVIII.	Meg and Captain Middleton	[220]
XIX.	The Young Idea	[240]
XX.	"One Way of Love"	[252]
XXI.	Another Way of Love	[261]
XXII.	The Encampment	[276]
XXIII.	Tactics	[287]
XXIV.	"The Way of a Man with a Maid"	[303]
XXV.	A Demonstration in Force	[325]
XXVI.	In Which Several People Speak Their Minds	[339]
XXVII.	August, 1914	[351]

ILLUSTRATIONS

"But surely," said Peter, "I am your job—part of it, anyway"	[Frontispiece]
	FACING PAGE
"It would make it easier for both of us if you'd face it, my dear"	[66]
He washed his small sister with thoroughness and despatch, pointing out ... that he "went into all the corners"	[156]
William rushed out to welcome the strangers. Two ... nice children	[188]