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MEHITABLE: The story of a school in Paris THE SILVER TARN: Mehitable in school in England TOTO AND THE GIFT: A French girl comes to New York MIDSUMMER: American young people in Sweden MIDWINTER: Another mystery story of Sweden today WISP: A girl of Dublin RED CAPS AND LILIES: Boys and girls during the French Revolution THISTLE INN: How two girls helped Bonnie Prince Charlie BLACKTHORN: A romance of Elizabethan England and Ireland
[Illustration: At The Old Green Mill-Inn]
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Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1924. Reprinted January, 1925; April, 1926; June, 1927; May, 1928.
Reissued November, 1932. Reprinted September, 1934. January, 1936. February, 1937. February, 1938. December, 1938. February, 1940. October, 1941. July, 1943.
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CHAPTER PAGE I. IN THE SCHOOLROOM 1 II. MARIE JOSEPHINE'S SECRET 11 III. THE BAL MASQUÉ 22 IV. JEAN 39 V. INSIDE THE COACH 52 VI. AUGUST TENTH, 1792 64 VII. AT LES VIGNES 79 VIII. HUMPHREY TRAIL 101 IX. DIAN 113 X. IN THE SNOWSTORM 124 XI. "THA MUST NOT CRY OUT, LASS" 137 XII. DIAN MAKES A FRIEND 148 XIII. PIGEON VALLEY AGAIN 159 XIV. WHAT LISLE PUT IN THE CAKE 173 XV. "SHE IS LIKE OUR LITTLE MADEMOISELLE" 193 XVI. MARIE JOSEPHINE IS READY 201 XVII. AT THE OLD GREEN MILL-INN 217 XVIII. VIVI SEES THE OTHER SIDE OF THE GATES 232 XIX. IN THE BAKERY SHOP AND OUT OF IT 245 XX. LISLE SEEKS ADVENTURE 256 XXI. IN THE HIDDEN CELLAR 268 XXII. CHAMPAR TO THE RESCUE 288 XXIII. IN GREAT-AUNT HORTENSE'S HOUSE 302 XXIV. THROUGH THE GATES 318 XXV. OUT OF THE MIST 339
AT THE OLD GREEN MILL-INN _Frontispiece_ PAGE MARIE JOSEPHINE 2 FLAMBEAU 16 LISLE 28 JEAN 40 LE PONT 62 HUMPHREY TRAIL 74 CÉCILE 82 BERTRAN 98 PINCE NEZ 118 GRIGGE 126 DIAN 150 VIVI 194
The sound was illusive. Flambeau listened with every bit of him, his taut, strong body alert with eagerness. The call might have come from the landing outside the small salon of Madame la Comtesse, but it had sounded higher up; the schoolroom, perhaps, or the nurseries beyond. Flambeau gained the top of a high staircase with a few leaping bounds, ran down a corridor, turned a corner, and almost knocked down his own Marie Josephine, who had been calling him. He leaped upon her in welcome.