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Madge Morton's Trust By
AMY D. V. CHALMERS Author of Madge Morton, Captain of the Merry Maid; Madge
Morton's Secret, Madge Morton's Victory. PHILADELPHIA
HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY HOWARD E. ALTEMUS
CONTENTS
CHAPTER. PAGE. I. A LATE ARRIVAL 7 II. THE DOCTOR'S SUGGESTION 17 III. DAVID FINDS A FRIEND 27 IV. THE SEARCH 40 V. PULLING UP ANCHOR FOR NEW SCENES 52 VI. WANDERLUST 60 VII. THE RESCUE 72 VIII. THE MOTOR BOAT DISASTER 84 IX. LEAVING THE HOUSEBOAT TO TAKE CARE OF ITSELF 96 X. A GHOST STORY 104 XI. THE FEAST OF MONDAMIN 112 XII. A BOY'S TEMPTATION 124 XIII. ELEANOR GETS INTO MISCHIEF 137 XIV. "CONFUSION WORSE CONFOUNDED" 149 XV. THE BLACK HOLE 158 XVI. THE BETTER MAN 169 XVII. THE BIRTH OF SUSPICION 181 XVIII. DAVID'S MYSTERIOUS ERRAND 191 XIX. GHOSTS OF THE PAST 200 XX. THE FANCY DRESS PARTY 213 XXI. THE INTERRUPTION 221 XXII. MADGE MORTON'S TRUST 232 XXIII. THE LITTLE CAPTAIN'S STORY 241 XXIV. "GOOD LUCK TO THE BRIDE" 248
Madge Morton's Trust CHAPTER I A LATE ARRIVAL
It was a particularly hot day in early July. A girl came out on the back
porch of an old fashioned New England house and dropped into a hammock.
She looked tired, but her big black eyes were eager with interest. She held a fat letter in her hand which contained many pages. At the top
of the letter was a pen and ink drawing of a miniature houseboat with
five girls running about on the deck, their hair blowing, their skirts
awry. One of them held a broom in her hand; she was the domestic
Eleanor! Another waved a frying pan; Miss Jenny Ann Jones, Chief Cook
and Chaperon! The third girl was drying her long, blonde hair in the
sun; Miss Lillian Seldon, the beauty of the houseboat party! The girl in the hammock recognized herself: she was feeding a
weird looking animal on four legs with a spoon. And standing among the
others, apparently talking as fast as she possibly could, and doing no
work of any kind, was a young woman whom the artist had carefully
labeled "Madge." Phyllis Alden laughed until the tears rolled down her cheeks. She could
not recall having laughed in two months, and she was sure she would keep
on giggling as long as she read her letter. "Miss Alden" a woman in the uniform of a professional nurse appeared at
the door "your mother says do you know where the twins are? She is
restless about them. I promised her I would come to you. I am sorry to
disturb you; I know you are tired." "Not a bit of it, Miss Brazier," insisted Phil stoutly. "Those dreadful
babies! I had forgotten I had not seen them in the last half hour. Of
course, they are in mischief. I will look for them right away." Phil thrust her precious letter into her blouse. It was four o'clock in
the afternoon and her letter from her chum had arrived in the morning
post. These were busy days for Phyllis Alden. Early in May she had been
called home from school by the illness of her mother. Since that time
the care of her father's house and looking after the irrepressible twins
had been Phyllis's work... Continue reading book >>
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