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Title: Secret History Revealed By Lady Peggy O'Malley

Author: C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson

Illustrator: Clarence Rowe

Release Date: September 17, 2006 [EBook #19304]

Language: English

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Secret History Revealed by Lady Peggy O'Malley

By C. N. & A. M. WILLIAMSON

Author of "The Lightning Conductor Discovers America," "A
Soldier of the Legion," "Lady Betty Across the Water," Etc.

With Frontispiece in Colors
By CLARENCE ROWE

A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York
Published by arrangements with Doubleday, Page and Company

_Copyright, 1915, by_
C. N. & A. M. Williamson

_All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign
languages, including the Scandinavian_

[Illustration: _"As I kicked it away, one of the slippers flew off and
seemed spitefully to follow the coat."_]

CHAPTER I

If I didn't tell this, nobody else ever would; certainly not Diana, nor
Major Vandyke--still less Eagle himself--I mean Captain Eagleston March;
and they and I are the only ones who know, except a few such people as
presidents and secretaries of war and generals, who never tell anything
even under torture. Besides, there is the unofficial part. Without that,
the drama would be like a play in three acts, with the first and third
acts chopped off. The presidents and secretaries of war and generals
know nothing about the unofficial part.

It's strange how the biggest things of life grow out of the tiniest
ones. There _is_ the old simile of the acorn and the oak, for instance.
But oaks take a long time to grow, and everybody concerned in oak
culture is calmly expecting them to do it. Imagine an acorn exploding to
let out an oak huge enough to shadow the world!

If, two years ago, when I was sixteen, I hadn't wanted money to buy a
white frock with