Chapter I: Front Matter

A DAUGHTER OF JEHU

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A DAUGHTER
OF JEHU

BY
LAURA E. RICHARDS
AUTHOR OF "ABIGAIL ADAMS AND HER TIMES," "PIPIN," ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

[Music: THE DUKE OF LEE]

D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
NEW YORK LONDON
1918

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

Printed in the United States of America

TO
HENRIETTE AND MOLLY
WITH MUCH LOVE

CONTENTS

PAGE
Prologue 1
CHAPTER
I. Cyrus . . . . . . . . . . . 5
II. Enter Kitty . . . . . . . . . . 17
III. Ross House . . . . . . . . . . 29
IV. The Home Guard . . . . . . . . . . 41
V. The Neighbors . . . . . . . . . . 51
VI. Johanna Ex Machina . . . . . . . . . 67
VII. A Symposium . . . . . . . . . . 80
VIII. The Trivial Round . . . . . . . . . 98
IX. The Skeleton in Cyrus' Cupboard . . . . . 113
X. The Party . . . . . . . . . . 126
XI. On the Rialto . . . . . . . . . 150
XII. Wilson Wimberley Wibird . . . . . . 167
XIII. Pilot . . . . . . . . . . . 186
XIV. Johanna Rediviva . . . . . . . . 200
XV. Largely Literary . . . . . . . . 212
XVI. Psycho-Cardiac Processes . . . . . . 222
XVII. Kitty Sings . . . . . . . . . . 237
XVIII. Old Love and New . . . . . . . . 252
XIX. "The Trivial Round" . . . . . . . . 265
XX. The Pan-American . . . . . . . . 276
XXI. The Tribulations of Cyrus . . . . . . 289
XXII. The Duke of Lee . . . . . . . . . 303
XXIII. Haste to the Wedding! . . . . . . . 316

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"A daughter of Jehu, for she driveth furiously" _Frontispiece_
FACING
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"Oh, Judge, I've come home, I've come home!".....................18

"Filling his pockets with gold, Tom strolled happily
through the streets of Peking, looking in at all the
bazaars"......................................................172

--then the Duke of Lee took his bride away......................323

A DAUGHTER OF JEHU