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Title: Our Next-Door Neighbors

Author: Belle Kanaris Maniates

Illustrator: Tony Sarg

Release Date: September 24, 2009 [EBook #30075]

Language: English

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OUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBORS

By Belle K. Maniates

AMARILLY OF CLOTHES-LINE ALLEY

MILDEW MANCE

OUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBORS

[Illustration: "What's your rush?" I asked, when I had overtaken him.
FRONTISPIECE. _See page 114._]

OUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBORS

By

Belle Kanaris Maniates

With illustrations by

Tony Sarg

Boston

Little, Brown, and Company

1917

Copyright, 1917,

By Little, Brown, and Company.

All rights reserved

Published February, 1917

Norwood Press

Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.

Presswork by The Colonial Press, Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

CONTENTS

I ABOUT SILVIA AND MYSELF 1
II INTRODUCING OUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBORS 9
III IN WHICH WE ARE PESTERED BY POLYDORES 28
IV IN WHICH WE TAKE BOARDERS 45
V IN WHICH WE TAKE A VACATION 61
VI A FLIRT AND A WOMAN-HATER 77
VII IN WHICH NOTHING MUCH HAPPENS 90
VIII PTOLEMY DISAPPEARS AND I VISIT A HAUNTED HOUSE 99
IX IN WHICH WE SEE GHOSTS 123
X IN WHICH WE MAKE SOME DISCOVERIES 138
XI A BAD MEANS TO A GOOD END 152
XII "TOO MUCH POLYDORES" 164
XIII ROB'S FRIEND THE REPORTER 173
XIV A MIDNIGHT EXCURSION 195
XV WHAT MISS FRAYNE FOUND OUT 203
XVI PTOLEMY'S TALE