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Title: Miss Mink's Soldier and Other Stories

Author: Alice Hegan Rice

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Language: English

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MISS MINK'S SOLDIER

AND OTHER STORIES

[Illustration: Then Miss Mink received a shock]

MISS MINK'S SOLDIER

AND OTHER STORIES

BY

ALICE HEGAN RICE

Author of "MRS. WIGGS OF THE CABBAGE PATCH," "MR. OPP," "CALVARY ALLEY,"
ETC.

NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1918

Copyright, 1905, 1906, 1910, 1918, by THE CENTURY CO.

Copyright, 1914, by THE CROWELL PUBLISHING COMPANY

_Published, October, 1918_

TO
THE LADY OF THE DECORATION

A MEMENTO OF MANY HAPPY DAYS
SPENT TOGETHER "EAST OF SUEZ"

CONTENTS

MISS MINK'S SOLDIER

A DARLING OF MISFORTUNE

"POP"

HOODOOED

A MATTER OF FRIENDSHIP

THE WILD OATS OF A SPINSTER

CUPID GOES SLUMMING

THE SOUL OF O SANA SAN

MISS MINK'S SOLDIER

Miss Mink sat in church with lips compressed and hands tightly clasped
in her black alpaca lap, and stubbornly refused to comply with the
request that was being made from the pulpit. She was a small desiccated
person, with a sharp chin and a sharper nose, and narrow faded eyes that
through the making of innumerable buttonholes had come to resemble them.

For over forty years she had sat in that same pew facing that same
minister, regarding him second only to his Maker, and striving in
thought and deed to follow his precepts. But the time had come when Miss
Mink's blind allegiance wavered.

Ever since the establishment of the big Cantonment near the city, Dr.
Morris, in order to encourage church attendance, had been insistent in
his request that every member of his congregation should take a soldier
home to Sunday dinner.

Now it was no lack of patriotism that made Miss Mink refuse to do her
part. Every ripple in