GRACE HARLOWE'S PROBLEM

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THEIR GREATEST, DEAREST DAY 7
II. THE LAST FROLIC 22
III. PLANNING FOR THE FUTURE 29
IV. MILESTONES 39
V. THE LOCKED DOOR 48
VI. A CLUB MEETING AND A MYSTERY 61
VII. HER OWN WAY 74
VIII. ALL IN THE DAY'S WORK 81
IX. WHAT EVELYN HEARD ON THE CAMPUS 93
X. LAYING THE CORNERSTONE OF A HOUSE OF TROUBLE 102
XI. THANKSGIVING WITH THE NESBITS 110
XII. MISSING--A FRIEND 123
XIII. A DISTURBING CONFIDENCE 133
XIV. THE RETURN OF THE CHRISTMAS CHILDREN 141
XV. THE NEW YEAR'S WEDDING 153
XVI. THE LAST WORD 163
XVII. THE SUMMONS 170
XVIII. THE BLOTTED ESCUTCHEON 182
XIX. THE SWORD OF SUSPENSE 194
XX. THE AWAKENING 204
XXI. KATHLEEN WEST MAKES A PROMISE 213
XXII. FIGHTING LOYALHEART'S BATTLE 222
XXIII. GRACE SOLVES HER PROBLEM 230
XXIV. THE BOND ETERNAL 249

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GRACE HARLOWE'S PROBLEM

CHAPTER I

THEIR GREATEST, DEAREST DAY


"And at this time next week we'll all be back at work," sighed Arline
Thayer. "Not that I love work less, but the Sempers more," she
paraphrased half apologetically. "It's been so perfectly splendid to
gather home, and Elfreda was a darling to plan and carry out such a----"

"Noble enterprise," drawled Emma Dean. "Behold in me a living witness to
the truth of it. Before this time, when, oh, when, has this particular
scion of the house of Dean had a chance to play in the nice clean sand
and bathe in the nice green ocean? It is green, isn't it, Grace? Elfreda
says it's blue, and those terrible, tiresome, troublesome twins say it's
gray, but I say----"

A shower of small pebbles, cast with commendable accuracy, rained down
on Emma. Raising herself on her elbows from her recumbent position in
the sand, she looked reproachful surprise at the Emerson twins who,
crouched in the sand and holding a fresh supply of pebbles in readiness,
awaited her next remark.