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Title: No. 13 Washington Square

Author: Leroy Scott

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NO. 13 WASHINGTON SQUARE

by

LEROY SCOTT

1914

[Illustration: "I NEVER SUSPECTED I'D END IN SUCH A LITTLE BLAZE"]

CONTENTS

I. THE GREAT MRS. DE PEYSTER

II. ENTER AN AMIABLE YOUNG GENTLEMAN

III. MISTRESS OF HER HOUSE

IV. A SLIGHT PREDICAMENT

V. THE HONOR OF THE NAME

VI. BEHIND THE BLINDS

VII. NOT IN THE PLAN

VIII. THE HONEYMOONERS

IX. THE FLIGHT

X. PEACE--OF A SORT

XI. THE REVEREND MR. PYECROFT

XII. HOME AGAIN

XIII. THE HAPPY FAMILY

XIV. THE ATTIC ROOM

XV. DOMESTIC SCENES

XVI. THE MAN IN THE CELLULOID COLLAR

XVII. A QUESTION OF IDENTITY

XVIII. THE THIRD FLIGHT

XIX. A PLEASANT HERMITAGE

XX. MATILDA BREAKS IT GENTLY

XXI. THE VEILED LADY

XXII. A FAMILY REUNION

XXIII. MR. PYECROFT TAKES CHARGE

ILLUSTRATIONS

"I NEVER SUSPECTED I'D END IN SUCH A LITTLE BLAZE"

"WHAT'S THAT YOU'RE CARRYING?"

"IT IS REALLY A REMARKABLE LIKENESS"

MATILDA UNLOCKED THE SERVANTS' DOOR

"SAME PAPER--SAME HANDWRITING!"

"SO--SO IT'S I--THAT'S--THAT'S DEAD!"

NO. 13 WASHINGTON SQUARE

CHAPTER I

THE GREAT MRS. DE PEYSTER

It was a raw, ill-humored afternoon, yet too late in the spring for
the ministration of steam heat, so the unseasonable May chill was
banished from Mrs. De Peyster's sitti