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Title: The Right Knock
A Story

Author: Helen Van-Anderson

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Language: English

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THE RIGHT KNOCK

A Story

by

HELEN VAN-ANDERSON

Author of "It Is Possible," "The Story of Teddy," "The Journal of a Live
Woman," etc., etc.

"Go to your bosom;
Knock there; and ask your heart, what it doth know"

--SHAKESPEARE.

_THIRTEENTH EDITION_

Published by
_The New York Magazine of Mysteries_
22 North William Street, New York City

Copyright, 1889, by Helen Van-Anderson
All rights reserved

THE RIGHT KNOCK

Copyright, 1903, by
The New York Magazine
of Mysteries
All rights reserved

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER. PAGE.

I. MRS. HAYDEN, 9

II. THE GIRLS AT HOME, 17

III. A FIRE AND A RETROSPECT, 25

IV. BEGINNINGS, 30

V. THE OLD DOUBTS AGAIN, 36

VI. TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, 44

VII. A NEW HOPE, 59

VIII. WHAT THE WORLD SAID, 63

IX. A STRUGGLE WITH SELF, 70

X. HINTS OF HELP, 79

XI. LEAVING HOME, 83

XII. MRS. PEARL'S LECTURE, 90

XIII. THE TRUE FOUNDATION, 95

XIV. QUESTIONINGS, 104

XV. WHAT IS NOT TRUE, 112

XVI. STUDYING AND PROVING, 125

XVII. WHAT IS TRUE,