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L. Allen Harker. Jan and Her Job
Jan and Her Job
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. JAN
CHAPTER II. JAN'S MAIL
CHAPTER III. BOMBAY
CHAPTER IV. THE BEGINNING OF THE JOB
CHAPTER V. THE CHILDREN
CHAPTER VI. THE SHADOW BEFORE
CHAPTER VII. THE HUMAN TOUCH
CHAPTER VIII. THE END OF THE DREAM
CHAPTER IX. MEG
CHAPTER X. PLANS
CHAPTER XI. THE STATE OF PETER
CHAPTER XII "THE BEST-LAID SCHEMES"
CHAPTER XIII. THE WHEELS OF CHANCE
CHAPTER XIV. PERPLEXITIES
CHAPTER XV. WREN'S END
CHAPTER XVI "THE BLUDGEONINGS OF CHANCE"
CHAPTER XVII "THOUGH AN HOST SHOULD ENCAMP AGAINST ME"
CHAPTER XVIII. MEG AND CAPTAIN MIDDLETON
CHAPTER XIX. THE YOUNG IDEA
CHAPTER XX "ONE WAY OF LOVE"
CHAPTER XXI. ANOTHER WAY OF LOVE
CHAPTER XXII. THE ENCAMPMENT
CHAPTER XXIII. TACTICS
CHAPTER XXIV "THE WAY OF A MAN WITH A MAID"
CHAPTER XXV. A DEMONSTRATION IN FORCE
CHAPTER XXVI. IN WHICH SEVERAL PEOPLE SPEAK THEIR MINDS
CHAPTER XXVII. AUGUST, 1914
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L. Allen Harker
Published by Good Press, 2021
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The ship was unusually noisy, but just about four o'clock came a new sound right outside her porthole—the rush alongside of the boat bearing the pilot and strange loud voices calling directions in an unknown tongue. She turned out her light (first peering fearfully under her berth to make sure no borax-braving cockroach was in ambush) and knelt on her bed to look out and watch the boat with its turbaned occupants: big brown men, who shouted to one another in a liquid language full of mystery.
For a brief space the little boat was towed alongside the great liner, then cast off, and presently—far away on the horizon—Jan saw a streak of pearly pinkish light, as though the soft blue curtain of the night had been lifted just a little; and against that luminous streak were hills.
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