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HOW JANICE DAY WON

by

HELEN BEECHER LONG

Author of "Janice Day the Young Homemaker,"
  "The Testing of Janice Day,"
  "The Mission of Janice Day," Etc.

Illustrated by Corinne Turner

The Goldsmith Publishing Co.
Cleveland

Copyright, 1917, by
Sully & Kleinteich

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. TROUBLE FROM NEAR AND FAR II. "TALKY" DEXTER, INDEED III. "THE SEVENTH ABOMINATION" IV. A RIFT IN THE HONEYMOON V. "THE BLUEBIRD—FOR HAPPINESS" VI. THE TENTACLES OF THE MONSTER VII. SWEPT ON BY THE CURRENT VIII. REAL TROUBLE IX. HOW NELSON TOOK IT X. HOW POLKTOWN TOOK IT XI. "MEN MUST WORK WHILE WOMEN MUST WEEP" XII. AN UNEXPECTED EMERGENCY XIII. INTO THE LION'S DEN XIV. A DECLARATION OF WAR XV. AND NOW IT IS DISTANT TROUBLE XVI. ONE MATTER COMES TO A HEAD XVII. THE OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN XVIII. HOPEWELL SELLS HIS VIOLIN XIX. THE GOLD COIN XX. SUSPICIONS XXI. WHAT WAS IN THE PAPER XXII. DEEP WATERS XXIII. JOSEPH US COMES OUT FOR PROHIBITION XXIV. ANOTHER GOLD PIECE XXV. IN DOUBT XXVI. THE TIDE TURNS XXVII. THE TEMPEST XXVIII. THE ENEMY RETREATS XXIX. THE TRUTH AT LAST XXX. MARM PARRADAY DOES HER DUTY

HOW JANICE DAY WON

CHAPTER I

TROUBLE FROM NEAR AND FAR

At the corner of High Street, where the lane led back to the stables ofthe Lake View Inn, Janice Day stopped suddenly, startled by an eruptionof sound from around an elbow of the lane—a volley of voices,cat-calls, and ear-splitting whistles which shattered Polktown's usualafternoon somnolence.

One youthful imitator expelled a laugh like the bleating of a goat:

"Na-ha-ha-ha! Ho! Jim Nar-ha-nay! There's a brick in your hat!"

Another shout of laugher and a second boy exclaimed:

"Look out, old feller! You'll spill it!"

All the voices seemed those of boys; but this was an hour when most ofthe town lads were supposed to be under the more or less eagle eye ofMr. Nelson Haley, the principal of the Polktown school. Janiceattended the Middletown Seminary, and this chanced to be a holiday atthat institution. She stood anxiously on the corner now to see if hercousin, Marty, was one of this crowd of noisy fellows.

With stumbling feet, and with the half dozen laughing, mocking boystailing him, a bewhiskered, rough-looking, shabby man came into sight.His appearance on the pleasant main thoroughfare of the little lakesidetown quite spoiled the prospect.

Before, it had been a lovely scene. Young Spring, garbed only in thetender greens of the quickened earth and the swelling buds of maple andlilac, had accompanied Janice Day down Hillside Avenue into High Streetfrom the old Day house where she lived with her Uncle Jason, her Aunt'Mira, and Marty. All the neighbors had seen Janice and had smiled ather; and those whose eyes were anointed by Romance saw Spring dancingby the young girl's side.

Her eyes sparkled; there was a rose in either cheek; her trim figure inthe brown frock,

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