Chapter I: Front Matter

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MOLLY BROWN'S JUNIOR DAYS

by

NELL SPEED

Author of "Molly Brown's Freshman Days," "Molly Brown's Sophomore Days," etc., etc.

With Four Half-Tone Illustrations by Charles L. Wrenn

New York Hurst & Company Publishers

Copyright, 1912, by Hurst & Company

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. DAUGHTERS OF WELLINGTON 5

II. MINERVA HIGGINS 18

III. IN THE CLOISTERS 32

IV. A LITERARY EVENING 44

V. VARIOUS HAPPENINGS 57

VI. "THE BEST LAID SCHEMES" 74

VII. A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE 89

VIII. COVERING THEIR TRACKS 105

IX. THE GRAVE DIGGERS 116

X. A VISIT OF STATE 134

XI. A SWOPPING PARTY AND A MOCK TRIAL 147

XII. ALARMS AND DISCOVERIES 163

XIII. "THE MOVING FINGER WRITES" 175

XIV. AN INVITATION AND AN APOLOGY 187

XV. A CHRISTMAS GHOST STORY THAT WAS NEVER TOLD 200

XVI. MORE CHRISTMAS PRESENTS AND A COASTING PARTY OF TWO 212

XVII. THE WAYFARERS 226

XVIII. HEALING THE BLIND 246

XIX. A WARNING 259

XX. THE PARABLE OF THE SUN AND WIND 272

XXI. THE JUNIOR GAMBOL 289

ILLUSTRATIONS

Did I frighten you? I am sorry _Frontispiece_

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They set to work to dig a small grave for Judy's slipper 129

"And she's given me a pair of silk stockings," cried Molly 213

The next thing she knew she was buried deep in a snow drift,
and Judy was whizzing on alone 224

Molly Brown's Junior Days