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Belle Kanaris Maniates. Our Next-Door Neighbors
Our Next-Door Neighbors
Table of Contents
Chapter I
About Silvia and Myself
Chapter II
Introducing Our Next-door Neighbors
Chapter III
In Which We Are Pestered by Polydores
Chapter IV
In Which We Take Boarders
Chapter V
In Which We Take a Vacation
Chapter VI
A Flirt and a Woman-Hater
CHAPTER VII
In Which Nothing Much Happens
CHAPTER VIII
Ptolemy Disappears and I Visit a Haunted House
Chapter IX
In Which We See Ghosts
Chapter X
In Which We Make Some Discoveries
Chapter XI
A Bad Means to a Good End
Chapter XII
“Too Much Polydores”
Chapter XIII
Rob’s Friend the Reporter
Chapter XIV
A Midnight Excursion
Chapter XV
What Miss Frayne Found Out
Chapter XVI
Ptolemy’s Tale
Chapter XVII
All About Uncle Issachar’s Visit
Chapter XVIII
In Which I Decide on Extreme Measures
Chapter XIX
Which Has to Do with Some Letters
Chapter XX
“The Money We Earnt for You”
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Belle Kanaris Maniates
Published by Good Press, 2019
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I was loth to force my presence on mother, but by this time my hospitable young friend had pulled the portières so strenuously that they parted from the pole, and I was presented willy nilly to the collector of antiquities, who had the angular sharp-cut face and form of a rocking horse. She was seated at a table strewn with books and papers, writing at 20 a rate of speed that convinced me she was in the throes of an inspiration. I forebore to interrupt. My scruples, however, were not shared by her eldest son. He gave her elbow a jog of reminder which sent her pencil to the floor.
“Mother!” he shouted in megaphone voice, “here’s the man next door––the one we get our soup plates from.”
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