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Title: The Trumpeter Swan

Author: Temple Bailey

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Language: English

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THE TRUMPETER SWAN

by

TEMPLE BAILEY

Author of
The Tin Soldier, Contrary Mary, Mistress Anne, Etc.

Illustrated by Alice Barber Stephens

[Frontispiece: "When I am married will you sound your trumpet high up
near the moon?"]

"_A sound from the clouds shall call thee from this earth._"

New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers
Copyright 1920 by
The Penn Publishing Company

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. A MAJOR AND TWO MINORS
II. STUFFED BIRDS
III. A WOLF IN THE FOREST
IV. RAIN AND RANDY'S SOUL
V. LITTLE SISTER
VI. GEORGIE-PORGIE
VII. MADEMOISELLE MIDAS
VIII. ANCESTORS
IX. "T. BRANCH"
X. A GENTLEMAN'S LIE
XI. WANTED--A PEDESTAL
XII. INDIAN--INDIAN
XIII. THE WHISTLING SALLY
XIV. THE DANCER ON THE MOOR
XV. THE TRUMPETER SWAN
XVI. THE CONQUEROR

ILLUSTRATIONS

"When I am married will you sound your trumpet high up
near the moon?" . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

"It's so heavenly to have you home."

Becky drew a sharp breath--then faced Dalton squarely--"I am going to
marry Randy."

"Oh, oh,", she whispered, "you don't know how I have wanted you."

THE TRUMPETER SWAN

CHAPTER I

A MAJOR AND TWO MINORS

I

It had rained all night, one of the summer rains that, beginning in a
thunder-storm in Washington, had continued in a steaming drizzle until
morning.

There were only four passengers in the sleeper, men all of them--two in
adjoining sections in the middle