By Dodd, Mead and Company

Published, September, 1908

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I An Afternoon Tea [9]
II Riddles and Games [23]
III The White Lady [36]
IV A Floral Offering [51]
V Miss Yankee Doodle [65]
VI Herenden Hall [79]
VII For One Night Only [93]
VIII The Earl of Ruthven [107]
IX An Important Document [121]
X A Momentous Interview [134]
XI The Birthday Party [149]
XII Summer Plans [162]
XIII Cromarty Manor [175]
XIV Uncle Marmaduke [190]
XV Puzzling Rhymes [204]
XVI The Croquet Party [218]
XVII The Griffin and the Rose [231]
XVIII The Old Chimney-Piece [245]
XIX The Discovery [258]
XX Good-Byes [272]

ILLUSTRATIONS

“Patty was a comfort-loving creature”[Frontispiece]
“Marie pinned it and sewed it”[95]
“‘How much pleasanter this is than squabbling’”[146]
“Often she would spend a morning lying in a hammock
beneath the old trees”		[177]