Chapter I: Front Matter

“WE WILL NEVER QUARREL THEN, WILL WE, DARLING?” HE SAID.—_Queenie Hetherton, Page 217._ ]

Queenie Hetherton

BY

MARY J. HOLMES

As published in the NEW YORK WEEKLY, Vol. 35, No. 31

G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1880, BY
STREET & SMITH

COPYRIGHT, 1883, BY
DANIEL HOLMES

(_All rights reserved_)

COPYRIGHT, 1908, BY
DANIEL HOLMES

_Queenie Hetherton._

TO
MRS. JULIE P. SMITH,
OF HARTFORD, CONN.,
I DEDICATE THIS STORY OF QUEENIE,
IN MEMORY OF
THE DEAR LITTLE GIRL WHO SLEEPS AMONG
THE NEW ENGLAND HILLS.

BROCKPORT, _June, 1883_.

CONTENTS.

PAGE
I. Introducing some of the Characters 7
II. Introducing more of the Characters 15
III. Mr. Beresford and Phil 25
IV. The Investigation 30
V. Phil Interviews his Grandmother 37
VI. Getting ready for Reinette 44
VII. On the Sea 53
VIII. Reinette Arrives 64
IX. Reinette at Home 82
X. The Two Reinettes 87
XI. On the Rocks 99
XII. Reinette and Mr. Beresford 107
XIII. Those People 116
XIV. Reinette and Phil 126
XV. Down by the Sea 140
XVI. Margery La Rue 144
XVII. Queenie and Margery 152
XVIII. Old Letters 163
XIX. The Little Lady of Hetherton 176
XX. Arrivals in Merrivale 184
XXI. The Dinner 192
XXII. Margery and the People 197
XXIII. Perfecting themselves in French 202
XXIV. “I love you, Queenie” 206
XXV. Phil’s Wooing 213
XXVI. Phil goes Away 223
XXVII. How Queenie bore the News 227
XXVIII. Mrs. La Rue’s Resolution 233
XXIX. Letters from Mentone 240
XXX. Trying to read the Page 250
XXXI. The Interview 257
XXXII. Christine 261
XXXIII. Reinette’s Interview with Margery 272
XXXIV. Reinette’s Interview with Christine 278
XXXV. Margery and her Mother 289
XXXVI. Margery’s Illness 296
XXXVII. The Letter 312
XXXVIII. Mourning for Phil 320
XXXIX. Tina 333
XL. The Letters 337
XLI. Queenie Learns the Truth 344
XLII. Christine’s Story 355
XLIII. The Sisters 369
XLIV. The Explosion 376
XLV. Magnolia Park 392
XLVI. At the St. James 400
XLVII. The Yellow Fever 411
XLVIII. The Occupant of No. 40 420
XLIX. Sister Christine 430
L. Phil’s Story 438
LI. Conclusion 448

QUEENIE HETHERTON.