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Title: The Dual Alliance

Author: Marjorie Benton Cooke

Illustrator: Mary Greene Blumenschein

Release Date: July 20, 2010 [EBook #33209]

Language: English

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The dual alliance

Marjorie Benton Cooke

The Dual Alliance

BOOKS BY
THE SAME AUTHOR

* * * * *

_Bambi_
_David_
_The Girl Who Lived in the Woods_

[Illustration: "But I--I hardly know you"]

THE DUAL
ALLIANCE

BY
MARJORIE
BENTON COOKE

ILLUSTRATED
BY
MARY GREENE
BLUMENSCHEIN

GARDEN CITY
NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1915

_Copyright, 1915,_
INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE CO.

_Copyright, 1915, by_
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO.

ILLUSTRATIONS

"But I--I hardly know you" _Frontispiece in color_
"He tended the fire that was between them" 88
"Every night at midnight Paul called her on the 'phone" 132
"Bob and Paul stood bowing and smiling" 160

PROLOGUE

Barbara Garratry was thirty and Irish. To the casual observer the world
was a bright coloured ball for her tossing. When she was a tiny mite her
father had dubbed her "Bob, Son of Battle," because of certain obvious,
warlike traits of character, and "Bob" Garratry she had been ever since.

She had literally fought her way to the top, handicapped by poverty,
very little education, the responsibility of an invalid and dependent
father. She had been forced to make all her own opportunities, but at
thirty she was riding the shoulders of the witch success.

Her mother, having endowed her only child with the gift of a happy
heart, went on her singing way into Paradise when Bob was three. Her
father, handsome ne'er-do-well that he was, made a poor and intermittent
living for them until the girl was fifteen. The