OUT AGAIN
VI. A LONG CHAPTER OF A WHOLE YEAR
VII. BEL AND BARTHOLOMEW
VIII. TO HELP: SOMEWHERE
IX. INHERITANCE
X. FILLMER AND BYLLES
XI. CHRISTOFERO
XII. LETTERS AND LINKS
XIII. RACHEL FROKE'S TROUBLE
XIV. MAVIS PLACE CHAPEL
XV. BONNY BOWLS
XVI. RECOMPENSE
XVII. ERRANDS OF HOPE
XVIII. BRICKFIELD FARMS
XIX. BLOSSOMING FERNS
XX. "WANTED"
XXI. VOICES AND VISIONS
XXII. BOX FIFTY-TWO
XXIII. EVENING AND MORNING: THE SECOND DAY
XXIV. TEMPTATION
XXV. BEL BREE'S CRUSADE: THE PREACHING
XXVI. TROUBLE AT THE SCHERMANS'
XXVII. BEL BREE'S CRUSADE: THE TAKING OF JERUSALEM
XXVIII. "LIVING IN"
XXIX. WINTERGREEN
XXX. NEIGHBOR STREET AND GRAVES ALLEY
XXXI. CHOSEN: AND CALLED
XXXII. EASTER LILIES
XXXIII. KITCHEN CRAMBO
XXXIV. WHAT NOBODY COULD HELP
XXXV. HILL-HOPE

THE OTHER GIRLS

CHAPTER I.

SPILLED OUT.

Sylvie Argenter was driving about in her mother's little
basket-phaeton.

There was a story about this little basket-phaeton, a story, and a
bit of domestic diplomacy.

The story would branch away, back and forward; which I cannot, right
here in this first page, let it do. It would tell--taking the little
carriage for a text and key--ever so much about aims and ways and
principles, and the drift of a household life, which was one of the
busy little currents in the world that help to make up its great
universal character and atmosphere, at this present age of things,
as the drifts and sweeps of ocean make up the climates and
atmospheres that wrap and influence the planet.

But the diplomacy had been this:--

"There is one thing, Argie, I should really like Sylvie to have. It
is getting to be almost a necessity, living out of town as we do."

Mr. Argenter's other names were "Increase Muchmore;" but his wife
passed over all that, and called him in the grace of conjugal
intimacy, "Argie."

Increase Muchmore Argenter.

A curious combination; but you need not say it could not have
happened. I have read half a dozen as funny combinations in a single
advertising page of a newspaper, or in a single transit of the city
in a horse-car.

It did not happen altogether without a purpose, either. Mr.
Argenter's father had been fond of money; had made and saved a
considerable sum himself; and always meant that his son should make
and save a good deal more. So he signified t