Dorothy's House Party

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Raymond Evelyn. Dorothy's House Party

CHAPTER I. THE END OF AN INFAIR

CHAPTER II. CHOOSING THE GUESTS

CHAPTER III. THE FIRST AND UNINVITED GUEST

CHAPTER IV. TROUBLES LIGHTEN IN THE TELLING

CHAPTER V. RIDDLES

CHAPTER VI. A MORNING CALL

CHAPTER VII. A MEMORABLE CHURCH GOING

CHAPTER VIII. CONCERNING VARIOUS MATTERS

CHAPTER IX. HEADQUARTERS

CHAPTER X. MUSIC AND APPARITIONS

CHAPTER XI. MORNING TALKS

CHAPTER XII. THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH

CHAPTER XIII. IN THE GREAT KITCHEN

CHAPTER XIV. AUNT BETTY TAKES A HAND

CHAPTER XV. A MARVELOUS TALE AND ITS ENDING

CHAPTER XVI. THE FINDING OF THE MONEY

CHAPTER XVII. THE STORY OF THE WORM THAT TURNED

CHAPTER XVIII. CONCLUSION

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Those who must go went quickly. By trains and boats, the various guests who had gathered at Deerhurst to welcome Dorothy’s home-coming had departed, and at nightfall the great house seemed strangely empty and deserted. Even Ma Babcock had relinquished her post as temporary housekeeper and had hurried across the river to nurse a seriously ill neighbor.

“I may be back tomorrer and I may not be back till the day after never! I declare I’m all of a fluster, what with Mis’ Calvert goin’ away sort of leavin’ me in charge – though them old colored folks o’ her’n didn’t like that none too well! – and me havin’ to turn my back on duty this way. But sickness don’t wait for time nor tide and typhoid’s got to be tended mighty sharp; and I couldn’t nohow refuse to go to one Mis’ Judge Satterlee’s nieces, she that’s been as friendly with me as if I was a regular ’ristocratic like herself. No, when a body’s earned a repitation for fetchin’ folks through typhoid you got to live up to it. Sorry, Dolly C.; but I’ll stow the girls, Barry and Clarry and the rest, ’round amongst the neighbors somewhere, ’fore I start. As for you, Alfy – ”

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“Surely. After her put Jane Potter.”

James was listening now and inquired:

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