Chapter I: Front Matter

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OTHER BOOKS IN THE BLUE RIDGE SERIES By Elia W. Peattie

AZALEA. Clean and wholesome, but lacking nothing in liveliness. Azalea is a winsome mountain lassie who has made many friends among girl readers.

ANNIE LAURIE AND AZALEA. Continuing Mrs. Peattie’s success in “Azalea,” hailed by reviewers and readers as a “first-class piece of fiction any boy or girl between nine and ninety will enjoy.”

Each story complete and individual, but each dealing with the people and the locality Mrs. Peattie’s charming stories have endeared to young readers.

[Picture: “So I lost David,” whispered Mary Cecily; “I lost my little
brother.”]

AZALEA AT
SUNSET GAP

BY
ELIA W. PEATTIE
Author of Azalea; Annie Laurie and Azalea; etc.

_Illustrations by_
_Joseph Pierre Nuyttens_

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The Reilly & Britton Co.
Chicago

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Copyright, 1914
by
The Reilly & Britton Co.

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_Azalea at Sunset Gap_

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I THE PERFECT CHAPERON 9
II PASSENGERS FOR BEE TREE 29
III SUNSET GAP 47
IV “SAY! TEACHER!” 67
V ROWANTREE HALL 87
VI LITTLE BROTHER 103
VII “DOING GOOD” 118
VIII THE WAR 138
IX THE RESCUE 156
X THE RESCUE, CONTINUED 172
XI KEEFE 192
XII THE BLAB BOY 207
XIII THE HERMIT THRUSH 225
XIV THE REBEL 242
XV NEW HOPES 261

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

“So I lost David,” whispered Mary Cecily; “I lost _Frontispiece_ my little brother.” “I an artist? Mercy, no,” said Azalea. “I’m 64 nothing—just a girl.” There was Paralee, dragging a gaunt woman to the 166 door. “Tell ’em to ’light, ma, and come in,” she begged Keefe lifted a languid hand. “I’ve been wanting to 230 tell you for a long time,” he said