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Title: The Girls at Mount Morris

Author: Amanda Minnie Douglas

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THE GIRLS AT MOUNT MORRIS

by

AMANDA M. DOUGLAS

Author of "Sherburne Series," "A Little Girl Series,"
"A Modern Cinderella," Etc.

[Illustration: Went Scudding Through the Park (Chap. 6.
Girls at Mt. Morris)]

M. A. Donohue & Co.
Chicago

Copyright 1914
M. A. Donohue & Company
Chicago

Made in U. S. A.

CONTENTS

I Looking the Future in the Face 1
II A New Outlook 22
III Food For Consideration 39
IV The Grace of Endeavor 58
V Zaidee 77
VI An Escapade and What Came of It 100
VII A Supreme Moment 118
VIII A Strange Confession 134
IX Whose Child Am I? 154
X Unraveling Tangled Threads 171
XI Standing Up to the Mark 186
XII Oh, Will I Be Welcome? 204
XIII A Mother's Love 220
XIV Going Out of the Old Life 244
XV Your True Home 267
XVI Out of Her Loyalty 287

THE GIRLS AT MT. MORRIS

CHAPTER I

LOOKING THE FUTURE IN THE FACE

Lilian Boyd entered the small, rather shabby room, neat, though
everything was well worn. Her mother sat by a little work table busy
with some muslin sewing and she looked up with a weary smile. Lilian
laid a five-dollar bill on the table.