Tripping with the Tucker Twins

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Speed Nell. Tripping with the Tucker Twins

CHAPTER I. ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

CHAPTER II. EARNING A LIVING

CHAPTER III. A TEMPEST IN A TEAPOT

CHAPTER IV. WHAT ZEBEDEE SAID

CHAPTER V. A TRIP TO CHARLESTON

CHAPTER VI. THROUGH THE GRILLE

CHAPTER VII. THE ABANDONED HOTEL

CHAPTER VIII. TUCKER TACT

CHAPTER IX. CHURCHYARDS

CHAPTER X. THE HEAVENLY VISION

CHAPTER XI. THE GUITAR

CHAPTER XII. MORAL COURAGE

CHAPTER XIII. ENGAGING BOARD

CHAPTER XIV. THE CLERK OF THE COUNCIL

CHAPTER XV. WHO WON THE BET?

CHAPTER XVI. LETTERS

CHAPTER XVII. MISS ARABELLA

CHAPTER XVIII. A CHANCE FOR LOUIS

CHAPTER XIX. A RED, RED ROSE

CHAPTER XX. MORE LETTERS

CHAPTER XXI. THE SUMMING UP

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We were up bright and early the next morning. I was dressed and tenderly cared for, with my easy chair dragged into the bay window, where I could command a view of the street east and west as far as the eye could reach. A housemaid, whose duty it was in the morning to do up the Tuckers' apartment, was cautioned to look in on me every half-hour to see that I wanted for nothing.

"Zebedee would kill us for leaving you this way," declared Dum as she embraced me good-by. "Nothing but the exigencies of the case excuse us."

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"No, indeed; I never claimed acquaintance with her, I tell you! She made out that she had never seen me before and I fell in with her mood and just be'ed an agent, only that and nothing more. Sometimes I think maybe she really did not know me. You know she won't wear glasses all the time and I believe her eye-sight is bad."

"Maybe she didn't know you, after all," I ventured cheerfully.

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