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Title: What Two Children Did

Author: Charlotte E. Chittenden

Release Date: April 4, 2005 [EBook #15541]

Language: English

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WHAT TWO
CHILDREN DID

BY
CHARLOTTE E. CHITTENDEN

NEW YORK
HURST & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1903,
BY GEORGE W. JACOBS & CO.
_Published, September, 1903_

[E-book Transcriber's Note: Obvious typos have been corrected and
missing punctuation provided.]

Contents

I. ON THE WAY
II. AT THE SHORE
III. BETH AND HER DOLLS
IV. THE WEDDING
V. THE NEW WAY
VI. A PLAN
VII. THE SECRET
VIII. THE REWARD
IX. ONCE A YEAR
X. BETH'S BIRTHDAY
XI. THE DAY AFTER
XII. SUNDAY
XIII. THE FOUR TOGETHER
XIV. THE WEDDING AND THE VISIT
XV. THE LOST INVITATION
XVI. THE MAIL AND ETHELWYN'S VISIT
XVII. OUT AT GRANDMOTHER'S
XVIII. HOW THEY BOUGHT A BABY
XIX. BOBBY'S GRANDFATHER
XX. THE VISIT TO THE HOME

What Two Children Did

_CHAPTER I_
_On the Way_

In the train we're watching
Outdoors speeding by:
Endless moving pictures,
Framed by earth and sky.

"Mistakes are very easy to make, I think," said Ethelwyn, with an uneasy
look at her mother who sat opposite, thinking hard about something. The
reason Ethelwyn knew her mother was thinking, was because at such times
two little lines came and stood between her eyes, like sentinels.

"Do you think God made a mistake when He sent us here?" asked Beth.

They were in a Pullman car which was moving rapidly along in the
darkness. Inside it was very bright and beautiful, and would have been
most interesting to the children, had it not been for those two lines in
their dear mother's face.

"She is thinking about the naughty things we have done," said Ethelwyn
to Beth in a tragic tone, at the same time taking a mournful bite out of
a large, sugary cooky. They had eaten st