Copyright, 1917, by
CUPPLES & LEON COMPANY

DOROTHY DALE’S ENGAGEMENT

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.“Alone in a Great City”[1]
II.G. K. to the Rescue[17]
III.Tavia in the Shade[26]
IV.Something About “G. Knapp”[32]
V.Dorothy Is Disturbed[40]
VI.Something of a Mystery[47]
VII.Garry Sees a Wall Ahead[57]
VIII.And Still Dorothy Is Not Happy[66]
IX.They See Garry’s Back[72]
X.“Heart Disease”[78]
XI.A Bold Thing to Do![84]
XII.Uncertainties[92]
XIII.Dorothy Makes a Discovery[101]
XIV.Tavia Is Determined[109]
XV.The Slide on Snake Hill[116]
XVI.The Fly in the Amber[127]
XVII.“Do You Understand Tavia?”[135]
XVIII.Cross Purposes[141]
XIX.Wedding Bells in Prospect[147]
XX.A Girl of To-Day[154]
XXI.The Bud Unfolds[162]
XXII.Dorothy Decides[169]
XXIII.Nat Jumps at a Conclusion[179]
XXIV.Thin Ice[188]
XXV.Garry Balks[200]
XXVI.Serious Thoughts[207]
XXVII.“It’s All Off!”[213]
XXVIII.The Castaways[225]
XXIX.Something Amazing[235]
XXX.So It Was All Settled[243]

DOROTHY DALE’S
ENGAGEMENT

CHAPTER I
“ALONE IN A GREAT CITY”

“Now, Tavia!”

“Now, Dorothy!” mocked Octavia Travers, making a little face as she did so; but then, Tavia Travers could afford to “make faces,” possessing as she did such a naturally pretty one.

“We must decide immediately,” her chum, Dorothy Dale, said decidedly, “whether to continue in the train under the river and so to the main station, or to change for the Hudson tube. You know, we can walk from the tube station at Twenty-third Street to the hotel Aunt Winnie always patronizes.”