The Girl Who Had Nothing

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Williamson Alice Muriel. The Girl Who Had Nothing

CHAPTER I-The Old Lady in the Victoria

CHAPTER II-The Old Lady's Nephew

CHAPTER III-A Deal in Clerios

CHAPTER IV-The Steam Yacht Titania

CHAPTER V-The Landlady at Woburn Place

CHAPTER VI-The Tenants of Roseneath Park

CHAPTER VII-The Woman Who Knew

CHAPTER VIII-Lord Northmuir's Young Relative

CHAPTER IX-A Journalistic Mission

CHAPTER X-The Coup of "The Planet"

CHAPTER XI-Kismet and a V.C

CHAPTER XII-A New Love and an Old Enemy

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At first there was no question of formal adoption. Joan simply stayed on and was allowed to feel that she had a right to stay. Gallon did all he could to oust her, for his mind had telescopic power and brought the future near. He feared the girl, but he dared not actually offend his aunt, lest he should lose at once what he wished to safeguard himself against losing later.

The child made Lady Thorndyke happier than she had ever been. Her presence created sunshine. She was never naughty like other children; she was never sulky nor disagreeable. A governess was procured for her, a mild, common-place lady whom Joan despised and astonished with her progress. "I was born knowing a lot of things which she could never learn," the little girl told herself scornfully. But she did not despise George Gallon, whom she occasionally saw, nor did she exactly fear him, because she believed that she would be able to hold her own in case the day ever came for a second contest, as she foresaw it would.

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He was right. Joan had something "up her sleeve," something too small to be visible, yet large enough, perhaps, to be the seed of fortune.

"He'll do a good deal."

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