Corduroy

by Ruth Comfort Mitchell

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CORDUROY

BY
RUTH COMFORT MITCHELL
AUTHOR OF “PLAY THE GAME,”
“JANE JOURNEYS ON,” ETC.

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK : : LONDON : : 1923

COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Copyright, 1922, by The Crowell Publishing Company
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

TO
W. S. Y.
WHO HAS PUT ON CORDUROY
AND WEARS IT WELL

CORDUROY

CHAPTER I

FOR the first time in her life—she had been alive twenty-two vivid and zestful years—Virginia Valdés McVeagh, nicknamed, descriptively, “Ginger,” felt something like reverence for a male creature of her own species.