Good References

by E. J. Rath

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I	[Mary Decides]
CHAPTER II	[Aunt Caroline]
CHAPTER III	[Engaged]
CHAPTER IV	"[The Web We Weave"]
CHAPTER V	[Social Secretarying]
CHAPTER VI	[In Search of an Idea]
CHAPTER VII	[Via the Night Court]
CHAPTER VIII	"[Miss Norcross Gets the Goods"]
CHAPTER IX	"[Miss Norcross" Wields a Club]
CHAPTER X	[The Leopard's Spots]
CHAPTER XI	[The Valet in the House]
CHAPTER XII	[Signor Antonio Valentino]
CHAPTER XIII	[Mary Resigns]
CHAPTER XIV	[References]
CHAPTER XV	[To Sail the Ocean Blue]
CHAPTER XVI	[Three Errands Ashore]
CHAPTER XVII	[The Way of a Maid]
CHAPTER XVIII	[Castaways]
CHAPTER XIX	[The Spoilers]
CHAPTER XX	[The High Cost of Jealousy]
CHAPTER XXI	[The Last Bottle in Larchmont]
CHAPTER XXII	[The Road to Home]
CHAPTER XXIII	[Home]
CHAPTER XXIV	[Aunt Caroline—Referee]
CHAPTER XXV	[William Develops a Will]
CHAPTER XXVI	[Without References]

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GOOD REFERENCES

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[CHAPTER I]

Mary Decides

There was only one man in the office of the Brain Workers' Exchange and he was an obscurity who "kept" the books in the farthest corner of the room. Girls of various ages and women of all ages crowded him remorselessly out of the picture, so that when it was possible to obtain even a glimpse of him he served merely as a memorandum of the fact that there are, after all, two sexes. A few of the girls and women sat at desks; they were the working staff of the Exchange. One of them was also the owner and manager.