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CONTENTS

I.[The Girl and the Boy]
II.[Dinner Difficulties]
III.[Belated Haste]
IV.[New Friends]
V.[Original Plans]
VI.[Fair Play]
VII.[The Special Sale]
VIII.[Fish Hooks and Floaters]
IX.[The Big Day]
X.[Still They Came]
XI.[The Failure]
XII.[The Virtue of Resolve]
XIII.[Behind the Cloud]
XIV.[A Pleasant Surprise]
XV.[Talking it Over]
XVI.[Just Fishing]
XVII.[The Cave-in]
XVIII.[Introducing Nero]
XIX.[A Discovery]
XX.[The Midnight Alarm]
XXI.[For Value Deceived]
XXII.[Tarts and Lady Fingers]
XXIII.[The Story Told]

NANCY BRANDON: ENTHUSIAST

CHAPTER I
THE GIRL AND THE BOY

The small kitchen was untidy. There were boxes empty and some crammed with loose papers, while a big clothes basket was filled—with a small boy, who took turns rolling it like a boat and bumping it up and down like a flivver. Ted Brandon was about eleven years old, full of boyhood’s importance and bristling with boyhood’s pranks.

His sister Nancy, who stood placidly reviewing the confusion, was, she claimed, in her teens. She was also just now in her glory, for after many vicissitudes and uncertainties they were actually moved into the old Townsend place at Long Leigh.