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L. Frank Baum, Edith Van Dyne
AUNT JANE'S NIECES - Complete 10 Book Collection
(Illustrated)
Timeless Children Classics For Young Girls
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[email protected] 2017 OK Publishing ISBN 978-80-7583-225-2
Table of Contents
Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville
Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John
Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation
Aunt Jane's Nieces on the Ranch
Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross
Aunt Jane's Nieces
CHAPTER I. BETH RECEIVES AN INVITATION.
CHAPTER II. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER.
CHAPTER IV. LOUISE MAKES A DISCOVERY.
CHAPTER VII. THE FIRST WARNING.
CHAPTER X. THE MAN WITH THE BUNDLE.
CHAPTER XII. UNCLE JOHN GETS ACQUAINTED.
CHAPTER XIII. THE OTHER NIECE.
CHAPTER XIV. KENNETH IS FRIGHTENED.
CHAPTER XV. PATSY MEETS WITH AN ACCIDENT.
CHAPTER XVII. AUNT JANE'S HEIRESS.
CHAPTER XVIII. PATRICIA SPEAKS FRANKLY.
CHAPTER XXI. READING THE WILL.
CHAPTER XXII. JAMES TELLS A STRANGE STORY.
CHAPTER XXIII. PATSY ADOPTS AN UNCLE.
CHAPTER XXV UNCLE JOHN ACTS QUEERLY.
CHAPTER XXVI. A BUNCH OF KEYS.
CHAPTER XXVII. LOUISE MAKES A DISCOVERY.
CHAPTER XXVIII. PATSY LOSES HER JOB.
CHAPTER XXIX. THE MAJOR DEMANDS AN EXPLANATION.
CHAPTER I.
BETH RECEIVES AN INVITATION.
Professor De Graf was sorting the mail at the breakfast table.
"Here's a letter for you, Beth," said he, and tossed it across the cloth to where his daughter sat.
The girl raised her eyebrows, expressing surprise. It was something unusual for her to receive a letter. She picked up the square envelope between a finger and thumb and carefully read the inscription, "Miss Elizabeth De Graf, Cloverton, Ohio." Turning the envelope she found on the reverse flap a curious armorial emblem, with the word "Elmhurst."
Then she glanced at her father, her eyes big and somewhat startled in expression. The Professor was deeply engrossed in a letter from Benjamin Lowenstein which declared that a certain note must be paid at maturity. His weak, watery blue eyes stared rather blankly from behind the gold-rimmed spectacles. His flat nostrils extended and compressed like those of a frightened horse; and the indecisive mouth was tremulous. At the best the Professor was not an imposing personage. He wore a dressing-gown of soiled quilted silk and linen not too immaculate; but