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THE GARRET BEFORE FANDY'S ARRIVAL 108

FANDY'S FIRST FENCING-MATCH 111

THE FENCING-MASTER 115

THE MAID OF ORLEANS 127

THE CANDY-PULLING 129

THE LAST VIEW OF THE PICTURE GALLERY 143

GORY'S PRIVATE TABLE 146

JOSIE MANNING WAITS FOR DORRY 163

DONALD AND ED TYLER TRY THE GYMNASIUM 178

"SO PICTURESKY!" 185

"HE'S COMPLAININ'" 187

"DON LEVELLED HIS RIFLE, AND FIRED" 208

THE CONSPIRATORS' PLOT IS CARRIED INTO EFFECT 217

BEN'S CIDER EXPERIENCE 222

OFF FOR EUROPE 269

KASSY EVIDENTLY HAD SOMETHING ON HER MIND 275

MONSIEUR BAJEAU BECOMES INTERESTED IN DONALD'S CHAIN 307

DONALD AND DOROTHY.

CHAPTER I.

IN WHICH NONE OF THE CHARACTERS APPEAR.

The door of the study was closed, and only Nero was to be seen. He, poor
dog, stood in the wide hall gazing wistfully at the knob, and pricking
up his ears whenever sounds of movement in the room aroused his hope of
being admitted. Suddenly he gave a yelp of delight. Somebody surely was
approaching the door. The steps--they were a man's--halted. There was a
soft, rolling sound, as if the master's chair were being drawn to the
table; next, a rustling of paper; a deep-voiced moan; the rapid
scratching of a quill pen; then silence--silence--and poor Nero again
stood at half-mast.

Any ordinary dog would have barked, or pawed impatiently at the door.
But Nero was not an ordinary dog. He knew that something unusual was
going on, something with which even he, the protector and pet of the
household, the frisky Master of Ceremonies, must not interfere. But when
the bell-pull within the room clicked sharply, and a faint tinkle came
up from below, he flew eagerly to the head of the basement stairs, and
wagged his bushy tail with a steady, vigorous stroke, as though it were
the crank of some unseen machine which slowly and surely would draw
Liddy, the housemaid, up the stairway.

The bell rang again. The machine put on more steam. Still no Liddy.
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