LADDIE

A TRUE BLUE STORY

by

GENE STRATTON-PORTER

To
LEANDER ELLIOT STRATTON
"The Way to Be Happy Is to Be Good"

Contents

CHAPTER
I. [Little Sister]
II. [Our Angel Boy]
III. [Mr. Pryor's Door]
IV. [The Last Day in Eden]
V. [The First Day of School]
VI. [The Wedding Gown]
VII. [When Sally Married Peter]
VIII. [The Shropshire and the Crusader]
IX. ["Even So"]
X. [Laddie Takes the Plunge]
XI. [Keeping Christmas Our Way]
XII. [The Horn of the Hunter]
XIII. [The Garden of the Lord]
XIV. [The Crest of Eastbrooke]
XV. [Laddie, the Princess, and the Pie]
XVI. [The Homing Pigeon]
XVII. [In Faith Believing]
XVIII. [The Pryor Mystery]

LADDIE

CHARACTERS

LADDIE, Who Loved and Asked No Questions.
THE PRINCESS, From the House of Mystery.
LEON, Our Angel Child.
LITTLE SISTER, Who Tells What Happened.
MR. and MRS. STANTON, Who Faced Life Shoulder to Shoulder.
SALLY and PETER, Who Married Each Other.
ELIZABETH, SHELLEY, MAY and Other Stanton Children.
MR. and MRS. PRYOR, Father and Mother of the Princess.
ROBERT PAGET, a Chicago Lawyer.
MRS. FRESHETT, Who Offered Her Life for Her Friend.
CANDACE, the Cook.
MISS AMELIA, the School Mistress.
Interested Relatives, Friends, and Neighbours.