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       L. Frank Baum, Edith Van Dyne

      AUNT JANE'S NIECES - Complete 10 Book Collection

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       Timeless Children Classics For Young Girls

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       Aunt Jane's Nieces

       Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad

       Aunt Jane's Nieces at Millville

       Aunt Jane's Nieces at Work

       Aunt Jane's Nieces in Society

       Aunt Jane's Nieces and Uncle John

       Aunt Jane's Nieces on Vacation

       Aunt Jane's Nieces on the Ranch

       Aunt Jane's Nieces Out West

       Aunt Jane's Nieces in the Red Cross

      Aunt Jane's Nieces

       Table of Contents

       CHAPTER I. BETH RECEIVES AN INVITATION.

       CHAPTER II. MOTHER AND DAUGHTER.

       CHAPTER III. PATSY.

       CHAPTER IV. LOUISE MAKES A DISCOVERY.

       CHAPTER V. AUNT JANE.

       CHAPTER VI. THE BOY.

       CHAPTER VII. THE FIRST WARNING.

       CHAPTER VIII. THE DIPLOMAT.

       CHAPTER IX. COUSINS.

       CHAPTER X. THE MAN WITH THE BUNDLE.

       CHAPTER XI. THE MAD GARDENER.

       CHAPTER XII. UNCLE JOHN GETS ACQUAINTED.

       CHAPTER XIII. THE OTHER NIECE.

       CHAPTER XIV. KENNETH IS FRIGHTENED.

       CHAPTER XV. PATSY MEETS WITH AN ACCIDENT.

       CHAPTER XVI. GOOD RESULTS.

       CHAPTER XVII. AUNT JANE'S HEIRESS.

       CHAPTER XVIII. PATRICIA SPEAKS FRANKLY.

       CHAPTER XIX. DUPLICITY.

       CHAPTER XX. IN THE GARDEN.

       CHAPTER XXI. READING THE WILL.

       CHAPTER XXII. JAMES TELLS A STRANGE STORY.

       CHAPTER XXIII. PATSY ADOPTS AN UNCLE.

       CHAPTER XXIV. HOME AGAIN.

       CHAPTER XXV UNCLE JOHN ACTS QUEERLY.

       CHAPTER XXVI. A BUNCH OF KEYS.

       CHAPTER XXVII. LOUISE MAKES A DISCOVERY.

       CHAPTER XXVIII. PATSY LOSES HER JOB.

       CHAPTER XXIX. THE MAJOR DEMANDS AN EXPLANATION.

      CHAPTER I.

       BETH RECEIVES AN INVITATION.

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      Professor De Graf was sorting the mail at the breakfast table.

      "Here's a letter for you, Beth," said he, and tossed it across the cloth to where his daughter sat.

      The girl raised her eyebrows, expressing surprise. It was something unusual for her to receive a letter. She picked up the square envelope between a finger and thumb and carefully read the inscription, "Miss Elizabeth De Graf, Cloverton, Ohio." Turning the envelope she found on the reverse flap a curious armorial emblem, with the word "Elmhurst."

      Then she glanced at her father, her eyes big and somewhat startled in expression. The Professor was deeply engrossed in a letter from Benjamin Lowenstein which declared that a certain note must be paid at maturity. His weak, watery blue eyes stared rather blankly from behind the gold-rimmed spectacles. His flat nostrils extended and compressed like those of a frightened horse; and the indecisive mouth was tremulous. At the best the Professor was not an imposing personage. He wore a dressing-gown of soiled quilted silk and linen not too immaculate; but

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