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Title: A Court of Inquiry

Author: Grace S. Richmond

Release Date: June 2, 2006 [EBook #18489]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "'We four,' declared the Skeptic, 'constitute a private
Court of Inquiry into the Condition of Our Friends'"]

A COURT
OF INQUIRY

By GRACE S. RICHMOND

Author of "Red Pepper Burns," "Mrs. Red Pepper,"
"Second Violin," Etc.

[Illustration]

WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS

A. L. BURT COMPANY, PUBLISHERS

114-120 East Twenty-third Street--New York

PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.

_Copyright_, 1909, 1916, _by_
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

_All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian_

COPYRIGHT, 1901, BY PERRY MASON COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1902, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY PERRY MASON COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1908, 1909, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY

TO

C. R. P. AND M. B. P.

CONTENTS

PART I

PAGE

I. Althea 3
II. Camellia 16
III. Dahlia 31
IV. Rhodora 44
V. Azalea 58
VI. Hepatica 72

PART II

I. Dahlia and the Professor 87
II. Camellia and the Judge 102
III. Azalea and the Cashier 117
IV. Althea and the Promoter 131
V. Rhodora and the Preacher 146
VI. Wistaria--and the Philosopher 162

PART III

I. Sixteen Miles to Boswell's 181
II. Honour and the Girl 220
III. Their Word of Honour 241
IV. "Half a League Onward" 261

PART I

A Court of Inquiry
and Other Tales

I

ALTHEA

Nothing impaired
but all disordered.
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