Newark, N. J.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE
I.A New Home,[1]
II.The Pineries,[15]
III.Apples of Discord,[28]
IV.A New President,[42]
V.Roger Carrington,[56]
VI.A Touch of Nature,[70]
VII.The Beginning of a Love Story,[86]
VIII.An Angry Father,[99]
IX.The Weaker Vessel,[116]
X.A Christmas Augury,[130]
XI.The Thorns that Beset Love,[148]
XII.A Talk of Weddings,[161]
XIII.Lovers and Lovers,[175]
XIV.Jaqueline,[191]
XV.A Small Hero,[207]
XVI.In Old Washington,[219]
XVII.The Flag of Victory,[240]
XVIII.Of Many Things,[253]
XIX.In the Midst of War,[265]
XX.The Old Story Ever New,[283]
XXI.Annis,[298]

A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD WASHINGTON.


CHAPTER I.
A NEW HOME.

"But you will have to take sides," declared Jaqueline Mason, "and it would be ungrateful if you did not take our side. You are going to live here; you really belong to us, you know. Your mother was own cousin to our dear mother, and Patty was named after her——"

"I don't see why I should be called Patty when you've given up Jack and make such a fuss!" interrupted a slim, unformed girl, who was nearly as tall as the first speaker.