Dorothy's Tour

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Raymond Evelyn. Dorothy's Tour

CHAPTER I. AT BELLEVIEU

CHAPTER II. ALFARETTA’S LETTER

CHAPTER III. THE PREPARATIONS

CHAPTER IV. IN NEW YORK

CHAPTER V. THE CARNEGIE HALL CONCERT

CHAPTER VI. THE OPERA

CHAPTER VII. AN EPISODE

CHAPTER VIII “AMERICA.”

CHAPTER IX. A DREAD CALL IN THE NIGHT

CHAPTER X. THE LOCKET

CHAPTER XI. THE TOUR BEGINS

CHAPTER XII. IN WASHINGTON

CHAPTER XIII. SIGHT-SEEING

CHAPTER XIV. HIGH HONOR

CHAPTER XV. MT. VERNON

CHAPTER XVI. THE LAKE CITY

CHAPTER XVII. THE ACCIDENT

CHAPTER XVIII. CONCLUSION

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“Alfa, Alfy,” called Ma Babcock. “Come ’ere quick, there’s something ’ere fer ye.”

“Ma, where are you,” yelled Alfy from the barnyard.

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“My, my, just think what a lot I shall have to tell Dorothy. I wonder what she will say. Just a bird. Shucks. I thought it was a real ghost. But ma says there are no really real ghosts. But, well, I don’t know.”

All this time Alfy had been opening boxes and shutting them, putting them back where she had found them, when suddenly she came across an old sampler about a foot square. Alfy looked at it, then brought it to the lamp and could see lots of new and hard stitches she had never learned. She didn’t see how anyone could sew them at all. And, my – what was that in the corner? A name. “Well,” thought Alfy, “here is a find. Maybe I can beg it off ma, and then I can take it to Dorothy.”

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