Transcribed from the 1902 Macmillan and Co. “Countess Kate and The Stokesley Secret” edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
THE STOKESLEY SECRET
BY
CHARLOTTE M. YONGE
London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1902
All rights reserved
Richard Clay and Sons, Limited,
LONDON AND BUNGAY
Transferred to Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901. Reprinted, 1902.
CHAPTER I.
“How can a pig pay the rent?”
The question seemed to have been long under consideration, to judge by the manner in which it came out of the pouting lips of that sturdy young five-year-old gentleman, David Merrifield, as he sat on a volume of the great Latin Dictionary to raise him to a level with the tea-table.