w he makes a new friend.

_CHAPTER IX_

Shows how Miss Bentley and the Reporter take refuge in a cave, and how,
in the course of the conversation which follows, she hears something
which disposes her to feel more kindly toward the Candy Man; shows also
how Uncle Bob proves faithless to his trust and his niece finds herself
locked out in consequence.

_CHAPTER X_

In which the Little Red Chimney keeps Festival, and the Candy Man
receives an unexpected invitation.

_CHAPTER XI_

In which a radical change of atmosphere is at once noticed; which shows
how Miss Bentley repents of a too coming-on disposition, and lends an
ear to the advantages of wealth.

_CHAPTER XII_

Which shows Miss Bentley recovering from a fit of what Uncle Bob calls
Cantankerousness; in which a shipwrecked letter is brought to light, and
Dr. Prue is called again to visit the child of the Park Superintendent.

_CHAPTER XIII_

In which the Candy Man relates his story, and the Miser comes upon
Volume I of the shabby book with the funny name.

_CHAPTER XIV_

Shows how Mrs. Gerrard Pennington, unhappy and distraught, beseeches
Uncle Bob to help her save Margaret Elizabeth; also how Mr. Gerrard
Pennington comes to the rescue, and how in the end his wife submits
gracefully to the inevitable, which is not so bad after all.

_CHAPTER XV_

In which the Fairy Godmother Society is again mentioned, among other
things.

ILLUSTRATIONS

THE CANDY MAN

MARGARET ELIZABETH

VIRGINIA

DR. PRUE

UNCLE BOB

THE MISER

COUSIN AUGUSTUS

MRS. GERRARD PENNINGTON

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To
George Madden Martin

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THE LITTLE RED CHIMNEY

CHAPTER ONE

_In which the curtain rises on the Candy Wagon, and the leading
characters are thrown together in a perfectly logical manner by
Fate_.

The Candy Wagon stood in its accustomed place on the Y.M.C.A. corner.
The season was late October, and the leaves from the old sycamores, in
league with the east wind, after waging a merry war with the janitor all
morning, had swept, a triumphant host, across the broad sidewalk, to lie
in heaps of golden brown along the curb and beneath the wheels of the
Candy Wagon. In the intervals of trade, never brisk before noon, the
Candy Man had watched the game, taking sides with the leaves.

Down the steps of the Y.M.C.A. building sauntered th