ILLUSTRATIONS

"Aren't you going to be friends with me?" ([Page 225])[Frontispiece]
FACING PAGE
"Where in the world did you come from?"[20]
With one quick movement she seized the whip handle[146]
"Oh, Mother dear, I'm so sorry!"[244]
"Land sakes, Missy! What is it?"[284]
"It takes a lot of pluck to get up and say a thing like that"[354]