Mistress Madcap
Mistress Madcap
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"There be no use talking o' holidays this year," said Mehitable bitterly.
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Copyright, 1925, by Doubleday, Page & Company. All rights reserved. Copyright, 1925, by Lamar & Barton, Nashville, Tennessee. Printed in the United States at the Country Life Press, Garden City, N. Y.
To
my own little maids
Elisabeth and Barbara
Contents
| Chapter | Page | |
| I. | Two Little Colonial Maids at Home | 1 |
| II. | The Strange Guest | 12 |
| III. | A Flight into the Newark Mountains | 25 |
| IV. | Mehitable's Secret | 36 |
| V. | Down the Cistern | 48 |
| VI. | The Lost Passport | 60 |
| VII. | Mehitable Walks into a Trap | 71 |
| VIII. | The Tables Are Turned | 83 |
| IX. | The Cabin in the Swamp | 96 |
| X. | The Town by the River | 106 |
| XI. | Pioneer Courage | 117 |
| XII. | On Board the Sloop | 131 |
| XIII. | Charity in New York Town | 140 |
| XIV. | A Little Lone Traveler | 148 |
| XV. | The "Long Room" | 156 |
| XVI. | Miranda Briggs's Heroism | 169 |
| XVII. | Storms | 176 |
| XVIII. | The Inn Servant | 187 |
| XIX. | The Red Cardinal | 195 |
| XX. | A Fairy Tale | 205 |
| XXI. | The Blow | 215 |
| XXII. | At Tolliver's | 230 |
| XXIII. | All's Well | 237 |
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