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MARY WARE IN TEXAS

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Works of ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON

The Little Colonel Series

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The Little Colonel Stories $1.50

(Containing in one volume the three stories, "The
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The Little Colonel's Holidays 1.50
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The Little Colonel at Boarding-School 1.50
The Little Colonel in Arizona 1.50
The Little Colonel's Christmas Vacation 1.50
The Little Colonel: Maid of Honor 1.50
The Little Colonel's Knight Comes Riding 1.50
Mary Ware: The Little Colonel's Chum 1.50
Mary Ware in Texas 1.50

The above 11 vols., _boxed_ with The Little Colonel Good
Times Book, as a set of 12 vols. 18.00

The Little Colonel Good Times Book 1.50
The Little Colonel Doll Book 1.50

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The Giant Scissors 1.25
Two Little Knights of Kentucky 1.25
Big Brother 1.25

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The Little Colonel $.50
The Giant Scissors .50
Two Little Knights of Kentucky .50
Big Brother .50
Ole Mammy's Torment .50
The Story of Dago .50
Cicely .50
Aunt 'Liza's Hero .50
The Quilt that Jack Built .50
Flip's "Islands of Providence" .50
Mildred's Inheritance .50

Other Books

Joel: A Boy of Galilee $1.50
In the Desert of Waiting .50
The Three Weavers .50
Keeping Tryst .50
The Legend of the Bleeding Heart .50
The Rescue of the Princess Winsome .50
The Jester's Sword .50
Asa Holmes 1.00

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MARY WARE IN TEXAS Chap XIII]

MARY WARE IN TEXAS

by

ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON

Author of "The Little Colonel Series," "Big Brother," "Ole Mammy's Torment," "Joel: A Boy of Galilee," "Asa Holmes," etc.

Illustrated by Frank T. Merrill

Boston * L. C. Page & Company * MDCCCCX

Copyright, 1910, By L. C. Page & Company (Incorporated)

Entered at Stationer's Hall, London

All rights reserved

First Impression, October, 1910

Electrotyped and Printed by The Colonial Press C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, U.S.A.

TO
F. V. P.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. IN SAN ANTONIO 1
II. IN SEARCH OF A HOME 25
III. THE LITTLE TOWN OF BAUER 51
IV. MARY FINDS GAY 71
V. AT FORT SAM HOUSTON 93
VI. ON THE CREEK-BANK 116
VII. CHRISTMAS 139
VIII. "DIE KLEINEN TEUFEL" 171
IX. AT THE BARNABY RANCH 198
X. IN JOYCE'S STUDIO 230
XI. PHIL GOES TO WARWICK HALL 259
XII. IN "BLUE-BONNET" TIME 284
XIII. JACK 308
XIV. SAN JACINTO DAY 329
XV. NEW TRAILS 353

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
"IT WOULD HAVE BEEN JOY TO HER SOUL COULD SHE HAVE
SEEN HERSELF" (_See page 308_) _Frontispiece_
"'WHAT AN ADORABLE LITTLE CURL!'" 7
"A DASHING GIRL IN KHAKI AND A COWBOY HAT, ASTRIDE
A FIERY LITTLE MUSTANG" 59
"HE . . . SEATED HIMSELF BESIDE HER, COFFEE-CUP
IN HAND" 113
"SHE SENT THE BOAT DOWN STREAM WITH LONG, SWIFT
STROKES" 134
"THREE ALERT AND EXPECTANT LITTLE FIGURES SAT IN
A ROW ON THE STEPS" 198
"LEANING AGAINST THE MANTEL, LOOKED DOWN AT HER,
THOUGHTFULLY" 263
"'WELL, I'M GOING AWAY AND I MAY NOT SEE YOU AGAIN'" 375

MARY WARE IN TEXAS