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Title: The Haunted Pajamas

Author: Francis Perry Elliott

Illustrator: Edmund Frederick

Release Date: September 20, 2010 [EBook #33780]

Language: English

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THE HAUNTED PAJAMAS

BY FRANCIS PERRY ELLIOTT

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY
EDMUND FREDERICK

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

Copyright 1911
The Bobbs-Merrill Company

TO
MY WINIFRED

[Illustration]

CONTENTS

I A PRESENT FROM CHINA

II AN OMINOUS DISCOVERY

III I DON THE PAJAMAS

IV JENKINS DECLARES FOR THE WATER WAGON

V THE GIRL FROM RADCLIFFE

VI ARCADIAN SIMPLICITY

VII CONFIDENCES

VIII HER BROTHER JACK

IX AN AMAZING REVELATION

X A NOCTURNAL INTRUSION

XI IRON NERVE

XII I SEND A MAN TO JAIL

XIII FRANCES

XIV "YOU NEVER SAW ME IN BLACK"

XV BILLINGS' SYMPTOMS ALARM ME

XVI AN INSCRIPTION AND A MYSTERY

XVII THE PROFESSOR

XVIII I RECEIVE A SHOCK

XIX THE SPELL OF THE PAJAMAS

XX BILLINGS RAMBLES

XXI THE COLLAPSE OF BILLINGS

XXII MY DARLING IS SLANDERED

XXIII A MESSAGE AND A WARNING

XXIV I SPEAK TO HER FATHER

XXV THE FAMILY BLACK SHEEP

XXVI FLORA

XXVII I RECOVER THE PAJAMAS

XXVIII "IF I EVER FIND A MAN!"

XXIX "BECAUSE YOU--ARE YOU"

XXX THE JUDGE FIXES "FOXY GRANDPA"

XXXI THE DEMON RUM

XXXII I TOUCH BOTTOM

XXXIII UNDER THE PERGOLA

XXXIV THE CUB

XXXV IN THE GLOW OF THE RUBIES

THE HAUNTED PAJAMAS

CHAPTER I

A PRESENT FROM CHINA

It was the first thing I saw that night as I swung into my chambers.
Fact is, for the moment, it was the only thing I saw. Somehow, its
splash of yellow there under the shaded lamp seemed to catch my eye and
hold it.

I screwed my glass tight and examined the thing with interest. Nothing
remarkable; just a