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Title: Peter and Jane
or The Missing Heir

Author: S. (Sarah) Macnaughtan

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Language: English

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PETER AND JANE

Or The Missing Heir

by

S. MACNAUGHTAN

Author of
'The Fortune of Christina M'nab'

Sixth Edition

Methuen & Co. Ltd.
36 Essex Street W.C.
London

First Issued in this Cheap Form (Fourth
Edition) . . . . . . . . . . . . July 2nd 1914
Fifth Edition . . . . . . . . . . . May 1916
Sixth Edition . . . . . . . . . . . 1919

First Published (Crown 8vo) . . . . September 14th 1911
Second Edition . . . . . . . . . . . September 1911
Third Edition . . . . . . . . . . . November 1911

TO

CATHERINE

PETER AND JANE

CHAPTER I

Mrs. Ogilvie, red-haired according to the exact shade then in fashion,
and dressed by Paquin, sat in her drawing-room reading the _Court
Journal_. She was a woman who thought on the lines of Aristotle,
despised most other women except Charlotte Corday, Judith, Joan of Arc,
and a few more, and she dyed her hair and read the _Court Journal_.
People who did not know her sometimes alluded to her as an overdressed
woman with a wig. Those who had met her even but once admitted the
power of her personality. Perhaps if any one had known her very well
he or she would have been bewildered by the many-sided complexities of
her character, and would have failed to discover any sort of unity
behind its surprising differences. But then, as a matter of fact, no
one did know her well.

Those who cared to remember such an old story used to tell how, as a
girl of eighteen, she had been deeply in l