1937
THE SUN DIAL PRESS, INC.
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AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED
TO
MY SISTER HELEN
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE I. [Great Aunt Katherine Commands] 1 II. [The Boy in the Flowery, Dragony Picture Frame] 19 III. [The Comrade Does Not Appear] 30 IV. [Little Orchard House, Beware!] 44 V. [Kate Makes Up a Face] 59 VI. [“I Will Pay for It”] 69 VII. [“Even So——”] 86 VIII. [Kate Meets a Detective] 92 IX. [Something of Fairy in It] 106 X. [In the Mirror] 116 XI. [Kate Takes the Helm] 135 XII. [The Special Delivery] 149 XIII. [“You Thief!”] 160 XIV. [The Stranger in the Garden] 174 XV. [Kate on Guard] 194 XVI. [One End of the String] 204 XVII. [Into the Orchard House] 219 XVIII. [The Last Room] 236 XIX. [Elsie Confides] 249 XX. [A Farewell in the Dark] 261 XXI. [Like the Stars] 269
THE
VANISHING COMRADE
“Orchard house, beware! Aunt Katherine’s nieces are here.”