CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I | Josie Becomes a Sales Girl | [ 7] |
| II | The New Home on Meadow Street | [ 19] |
| III | The Neighbors in Apartment 3 | [ 31] |
| IV | Josie’s Little Black Book | [ 44] |
| V | The Major Takes Up a Trail | [ 54] |
| VI | Too Many Detectives | [ 67] |
| VII | The Meddlesome Major Calls | [ 79] |
| VIII | Mary Keeps the Faith | [ 87] |
| IX | Who Is Miss Fauntleroy? | [ 98] |
| X | “The Watermelons Have Come” | [ 109] |
| XI | Mrs. Leslie Won to the Cause | [ 118] |
| XII | A Boarding House Hero | [ 129] |
| XIII | Jimmy Blaine Gets a Scoop | [ 141] |
| XIV | The Quarrel Next Door | [ 151] |
| XV | Josie Sets a Trap | [ 160] |
| XVI | Mrs. Leslie Turns Detective | [ 171] |
| XVII | The Girl in the Red Tam | [ 182] |
| XVIII | Josie O’Gorman’s Victory | [ 191] |
Josie and the Meddlesome
Major
CHAPTER I
JOSIE BECOMES A SALES GIRL
“Not much on looks!”
“Who?”
“That new girl the boss has just hired. Got no style to speak of. I reckon they’ll begin her at the notion counter. It don’t take much looks to hold down a job there.”
“Brains, perhaps!” suggested a trim looking girl with twinkling grey eyes and wavy brown hair, noticeable in that it was not so elaborately coiffured as her companions’. “My opinion is, Gertie Wheelan, that Mr. Burnett thinks more about brains than beauty where his business is concerned.”
“Don’t you fool yourself, Jane Morton. He may hire a plain one now and then because the good lookers give out, but take it from me, there ain’t a man livin’ that don’t fall for beauty.”