Betty Gordon at Bramble Farm: or, The Mystery of a Nobody
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Emerson Alice B.. Betty Gordon at Bramble Farm: or, The Mystery of a Nobody
CHAPTER I. WAITING FOR WORD
CHAPTER II. UNCLE DICK'S PLAN
CHAPTER III. DINING OUT
CHAPTER IV. AT THE CROSSING
CHAPTER V. MRS. PEABODY WRITES
CHAPTER VI. THE POORHOUSE RAT
CHAPTER VII. BRAMBLE FARM
CHAPTER VIII. BETTY MAKES UP HER MIND
CHAPTER IX. ONE ON BOB
CHAPTER X. ROAD COURTESY
CHAPTER XI. A KEEN DISAPPOINTMENT
CHAPTER XII. BETTY DEFENDS HERSELF
CHAPTER XIII. FOLLOWING THE PRESCRIPTION
CHAPTER XIV. WINNING NEW FRIENDS
CHAPTER XV. NURSE AND PATIENT
CHAPTER XVI. A MIDNIGHT CALL
CHAPTER XVII. AN OMINOUS QUARREL
CHAPTER XVIII. IN THE NAME OF DISCIPLINE
CHAPTER XIX. THE ESCAPE
CHAPTER XX. STORMBOUND ON THE WAY
CHAPTER XXI. THE CHICKEN THIEVES
CHAPTER XXII. SPREADING THE NET
CHAPTER XXIII. IN AMIABLE CONFERENCE
CHAPTER XXIV. A NEW ACQUAINTANCE
CHAPTER XXV. THEIR MUTUAL SECRETS
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The arbor was rather small and rickety, but at least it was shady. Betty sat down beside her uncle, who braced his feet against the opposite seat to keep his place on the narrow ledge.
"I'm afraid I take up a good deal of room," he said apologetically. "Well, my dear, had you begun to think I was never coming?"
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But Betty, who knew that excitement always affected Mrs. Arnold's bump of neatness, determined to set the table, partly to help her hostess and partly, it must be confessed, to make sure that the knives and forks and napkins were in their proper places.
"I'm sure I don't know where those boys can be," scolded the flushed but triumphant mother, as she tested the flaky chicken dumplings and pronounced the dinner "done to a turn." "We'll just sit down without them, and it'll do 'em good," she decided.
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