Marjorie Dean at Hamilton Arms
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Chase Josephine. Marjorie Dean at Hamilton Arms
CHAPTER I. WAITING FOR MARJORIE
CHAPTER II. AT HAMILTON HALL
CHAPTER III. THE REAL GUARDIAN OF HAMILTON
CHAPTER IV. OUR BELOVED GUESTS
CHAPTER V. A COLLEGE GIRL AGAIN
CHAPTER VI. A STEP IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION
CHAPTER VII. UNFLATTERING COMPARISON
CHAPTER VIII. LOOKING FOR TROUBLE
CHAPTER IX. DEFEATING HER OWN HAPPINESS
CHAPTER X. THE COMING OF ST. NICK
CHAPTER XI. OFF TO THE NORTH POLE
CHAPTER XII. CHRISTMAS AT CASTLE DEAN
CHAPTER XIII. THE VIOLET GIRL
CHAPTER XIV. THE PURSUIT OF PLEASURE
CHAPTER XV “I USED TO KNOW HIM”
CHAPTER XVI. ONLY OBEYING ORDERS
CHAPTER XVII “NERVE”
CHAPTER XVIII. ON THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
CHAPTER XIX. A STRANGER IN THE HOUSE
CHAPTER XX. MARJORIE’S CALLER
CHAPTER XXI “WE MUST WORK TOGETHER”
CHAPTER XXII. GUISEPPE BARETTI’S THEORY
CHAPTER XXIII. MOVING DAY
CHAPTER XXIV. LESLIE TENDS TO BUSINESS
CHAPTER XXV. THE LETTER
CHAPTER XXVI. AT THE ARMS
CHAPTER XXVII. THE INTRODUCTION
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While Marjorie’s chums were buoyantly preparing a surprise tea for her she was seated beside Miss Susanna Hamilton in President Matthews’ office at Hamilton Hall. An expression of quiet happiness radiated from her lovely face as she listened to the heart-cheering words she had never expected to hear from the embittered grand-niece of Brooke Hamilton: “I have decided to give the world my great uncle’s biography.”
It had all happened so quickly, she was thinking. She was glad Miss Susanna had allowed her to tell her closest friends the good news. Though it had been near to ten o’clock she had gathered them into Room 15, and enthusiastically imparted it to them. Jerry had heard it with Marjorie’s first exclamatory utterance as she entered their room. It yet remained to tell Kathie and Lillian the next morning.
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“I think I never knew of a more deplorable misunderstanding.” There was poignant regret in Doctor Matthews’ assertion. “We have, however one thing for which to give thanks. No calumnious word was ever published against the memory of Brooke Hamilton. Yet, if you had found the opportunity to talk with Doctor Burns, he would have advised you to go boldly ahead with the biography. I would say the same today in a similar situation.”
“Ah, that is precisely the point for which I blame myself!” the old lady cried out regretfully. “I should never have given up until I had seen the doctor. I have read Uncle Brooke’s letters and journals, over and over. They are the essence of truth. No slanderous reports could live beside them. I know that now. But I was young then, and alone in a great empty castle. I was more or less bewildered by the responsibility which had become mine. I despised Alec Carden, and I was full to the brim of Hamilton pride. I had never talked with Uncle Brooke about the biography. It was an issue that came to the fore after his passing. When I had been rebuffed, as I thought, three times, I retreated into my shell and stayed there.”
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