At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern

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Reed Myrtle. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern

I. The End of the Honeymoon

II. The Day Afterward

III. The First Caller

IV. Finances

V. Mrs. Smithers

VI. The Coming of Elaine

VII. An Uninvited Guest

VIII. More

IX. Another

X. Still More

XI. Mrs. Dodd’s Third Husband

XII. Her Gift to the World

XIII. A Sensitive Soul

XIV. Mrs. Dodd’s Fifth Fate

XV. Treasure-Trove

XVI. Good Fortune

XVII. The Lady Elaine knows her Heart

XVIII. Uncle Ebeneezer’s Diary

XIX. Various Departures

XX. The Love of Another Elaine

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By the pitiless light of early morning, the house was even uglier than at night. With an irreverence essentially modern, Dorothy decided, while she was dressing, to have all the furniture taken out into the back yard, where she could look it over at her leisure. She would make a bonfire of most of it, or, better yet, have it cut into wood for the fireplace. Thus Uncle Ebeneezer’s cumbrous bequest might be quickly transformed into comfort.

“And,” thought Dorothy, “I’ll take down that hideous portrait over the mantel before I’m a day older.”

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“I ain’t a-runnin’ of no livery, but I can take ’em up, if that’s what you’re wantin’.”

“Exactly,” said Harlan, “and the box, too, if you will. And the things I’ve just ordered at the grocery – can you bring them, too?”

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