Vicky Van

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Wells Carolyn. Vicky Van

CHAPTER I. VICKY VAN

CHAPTER II. MR. SOMERS

CHAPTER III. THE WAITER'S STORY

CHAPTER IV. SOMERS' REAL NAME

CHAPTER V. THE SCHUYLER HOUSEHOLD

CHAPTER VI. VICKY'S WAYS

CHAPTER VII. RUTH SCHUYLER

CHAPTER VIII. THE LETTER-BOX

CHAPTER IX. THE SOCIAL SECRETARY

CHAPTER X. THE INQUEST

CHAPTER XI. A NOTE FROM VICKY

CHAPTER XII. MORE NOTES

CHAPTER XIII. FLEMING STONE

CHAPTER XIV. WALLS HAVE TONGUES

CHAPTER XV. FIBSY

CHAPTER XVI. A FUTILE CHASE

CHAPTER XVII. THE GOLD-FRINGED GOWN

CHAPTER XVIII. FIBSY DINES OUT

CHAPTER XIX. PROOFS AND MORE PROOFS

CHAPTER XX. THE TRUTH FROM RUTH

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It was nearly midnight when Steele came, and with him was a man I had never seen before, and whom I assumed to be the Mr. Somers I had heard about.

And it was. As Steele entered, he cast his eye around for Vicky, and saw her at the bridge table down at the end of the room. Her back was toward us, and she was so absorbed in the game she did not look round, if, indeed, she heard the noise of their arrival.

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"Oh, I'm all right," and I felt annoyed that he read in my face that I was put out. But I didn't like the looks of Somers, and I couldn't say so to the man who had brought him there.

I looked across the room, and in the wide hall doorway stood a man, who was quite evidently a waiter. He was white-faced and staring-eyed, and he fairly hung on to a portiere for support, as he repeated his agonized plea.

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