Annabel

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Baum Lyman Frank. Annabel

CHAPTER I. WILL MEETS WITH A REBUKE

CHAPTER II. THE DOCTOR TELLS THE TRUTH

CHAPTER III. MR. JORDAN BECOMES MYSTERIOUS

CHAPTER IV. MEIGS, MUSHROOMS AND MONEY

CHAPTER V. WILL BECOMES A HERO

CHAPTER VI. A BOY AND A MILLIONAIRE

CHAPTER VII. AN AFTERNOON CALL

CHAPTER VIII. THE DAWN OF PROSPERITY

CHAPTER IX. MYSTERIES AND SUSPICIONS

CHAPTER X. BAITING THE TRAP

CHAPTER XI. ON THE WRONG TRAIL

CHAPTER XII. THE “SPECIAL MESSENGER.”

CHAPTER XIII. MY LADY IS GRACIOUS

CHAPTER XIV. A DINNER IN A DRESS SUIT

CHAPTER XV. ANNABEL MAKES A DISCOVERY

CHAPTER XVI. MR. WILLIAMS DECIDES TO ACT

CHAPTER XVII. MR. JORDAN HEARS A STORY

CHAPTER XVIII. WILL’S BEST GIRL

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Meantime Will Carden walked slowly up the lane, his basket on his arm and his hands thrust deep into his pockets. Once out of sight of the Williams’ grounds his proud bearing relaxed, and great tears welled in his gray eyes. The scornful words uttered by Mrs. Williams had struck him like a blow and crushed and humiliated him beyond measure. Yet he could not at first realize the full meaning of his rebuff; it was only after he found time to think, that he appreciated what she had really meant by the words. Her children were rich, and he was poor. There was a gulf between them, and the fine lady did not wish her children to play with the vegetable boy. That was all; and it was simple enough, to be sure. But it brought to Will’s heart a bitterness such as he had never known in all his brief lifetime.

He liked the Williams boys and girls. They had always been good comrades, and not one of them had ever hinted that there was any difference in their positions. But of course they did not know, as their mother did, how far beneath them was the poor “vegetable boy.”

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“Straight as an arrow. And looked everyone square in the eye, and spoke the truth, as an honest man should.”

“Then why,” enquired Will, half scared at his own boldness, “did my father run away, Doctor Meigs?”

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