CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I. [CHANCING IT FOR VEE]
II. [PULLING A SLEUTH STUNT]
III. [WHEN IRA SHOWED SOME PEP]
IV. [TORCHY BUGS THE SYSTEM]
V. [BREEZING BY WITH PEGGY]
VI. [GLOOM SHUNTING FOR THE BOSS]
VII. [TORCHY IN ON THE DRAW]
VIII. [GLADYS IN A DOUBLE BILL]
IX. [LATE RETURNS ON POPOVER]
X. [MERRY DODGES A DEAD HEAT]
XI. [THE PASSING BY OF BUNNY]
XII. [THE GLAD HAIL FOR TORCHY]
XIII. [AUNTY FLAGS A ROSY ONE]
XIV. [CUTTING IN ON THE BLISS]
XV. [BEING SICCED ON PERCEY]
XVI. [HOW WHITY GUNKED THE PLOT]
XVII. [TORCHY GETS A THROUGH WIRE]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[ "WELL, IF I EVER! LOOK WHERE YOUR SHOULDERS
COME!" . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece ]

[ "BY GORRY!" EXPLODES IRA AS HE GETS HIS FIRST GLIMPSE ]

[ SISTER HAS LANDED A SMACK ON HIS JAW ]

[ BELIEVE ME, IT WAS SOME ARTISTIC MAKEUP! ]

[ "AH, FLUTTER BY, IDLE ONE!" SAYS I ]

[ THEN MY ARM MUST HAVE SLIPPED—AND THE SIDE
CLINCH WA'N'T DISTURBED ]

[ WE WAS RIGHT IN THE MIDST OF PRACTISIN' THE SIDEWISE DIP,
WHEN WHO SHOULD SHOW UP BUT THE HAPPY BRIDEGROOM! ]