Our Next-Door Neighbors

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Maniates Belle Kanaris. Our Next-Door Neighbors

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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One morning Silvia and I lingered over our coffee cups discussing our plans for the coming summer, which included visits from my sister Beth and my college chum, Rob Rossiter. We wished to avoid having their arrivals occur simultaneously, however, because Rob was a woman-hater, or thought he was. We decided to have Beth pay her visit first and later take Rob with us on our vacation trip to some place where the fishing facilities would be to our liking. However, summer vacation time like our plans was yet far, vague and dim.

While I was putting on my overcoat, Silvia had gone to the window and was looking pensively at the vacant house next to ours.

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She evidently delivered my card, for I heard a woman’s voice read my name, “Mr. Lucien Wade.”

After another short interval the slovenly servant returned and offered me my card.

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