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Title: A Little Girl in Old Detroit

Author: Amanda Minnie Douglas

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Language: English

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A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD DETROIT

by

AMANDA M. DOUGLAS

[Illustration]

A. L. Burt Company
Publishers New York

Copyright, 1902,
by Dodd, Mead & Company.

First Edition Published September, 1902.

TO

MR. AND MRS. WALLACE R. LESSER

Time and space may divide and years bring changes, but remembrance is
both dawn and evening and holds in its clasp the whole day.

A. M. D., NEWARK, N. J.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. A HALF STORY, 1

II. RAISING THE NEW FLAG, 16

III. ON THE RIVER, 33

IV. JEANNE'S HERO, 50

V. AN UNKNOWN QUANTITY, 65

VI. IN WHICH JEANNE BOWS HER HEAD, 82

VII. LOVERS AND LOVERS, 102

VIII. A TOUCH OF FRIENDSHIP, 121

IX. CHRISTMAS AND A CONFESSION, 139

X. BLOOM OF THE MAY, 157

XI. LOVE, LIKE THE ROSE, IS BRIERY, 176

XII. PIERRE, 194

XIII. AN UNWELCOME LOVER, 209

XIV. A HIDDEN FOE, 228

XV. A PRISONER, 243

XVI. RESCUED, 265

XVII. A PAEAN OF GLADNESS, 289

XVIII. A HEARTACHE FOR SOME ONE, 307

XIX. THE HEART OF LOVE, 327

XX. THE LAST OF OLD DETROIT, 344

A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD DETROIT.

CHAPTER I.

A HALF STORY.

When La Motte Cadillac first sailed up the Strait of Detroit he kept his