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Title: Hollyhock
A Spirit of Mischief

Author: L. T. Meade

Illustrator: W. Rainey

Release Date: April 12, 2009 [EBook #28566]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Cover art]

[Frontispiece: Sprang out over the awful chasm.]

HOLLYHOCK

A SPIRIT OF MISCHIEF

BY

L. T. MEADE

AUTHOR OF 'BEVY OF GIRLS,' 'REBEL OF THE SCHOOL,' ETC.

ILLUSTRATED

by

W. Rainey

LONDON: 38 Soho Square, W.

W. & R. CHAMBERS, LIMITED

EDINBURGH: 338 High Street

1916

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I. THE CHILDREN OF THE UPPER GLEN
II. AUNT AGNES
III. AUNT AGNES'S WAY
IV. THE PALACE OF THE KINGS
V. THE EARLY BIRD
VI. THE HEAD-MISTRESS
VII. THE OPENING OF THE GREAT SCHOOL
VIII. HOLLYHOCK LEFT IN THE COLD
IX. THE WOMAN WHO INTERFERED
X. A MISERABLE GIRL
XI. SOFT AND LOW
XII. UNDER PROTEST
XIII. THE SUMMER PARLOUR
XIV. THE FIRE THAT WILL NOT LIGHT
XV. CREAM
XVI. THE GIRL WITH THE WAYWARD HEART
XVII. THE GREAT CONSPIRACY
XVIII. LEUCHA'S TERROR
XIX. JASMINE'S RESOLVE
XX. MEG'S CONSCIENCE
XXI. THERE IS NO WAY OUT
XXII. THE END OF LOVE
XXIII. THE GREAT CHARADE
XXIV. THE WARM HEART ROUSED AT LAST
XXV. THE FIRE SPIRITS
XXVI. HOLLYHOCK'S DEED OF VALOUR
XXVII. ARDSHIEL TO THE RESCUE
XXVIII. WHAT LOVE CAN DO

ILLUSTRATIONS

Sprang out over the awful chasm . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

'It's here on moonlight nights that the ghost walks.'

The Conspiracy

The Rescue.

Hollyhock, a Spirit of Mischief.

CHAPTER I.

THE CHILDREN OF THE UPPER GLEN.

There was, of course, the Lower Glen, which consisted of boggy places
and endless mists in winter, and a small uninteresting village, where
the barest necessaries of life could be bought, and where the folks
were all of the humbler class, well-meaning, hard-working, but, alas!
poor of the poor. When all was said and done, t