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Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman

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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman, by Emma Speed Sampson, Illustrated by Harry W. Armstrong

Title: Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman

Author: Emma Speed Sampson

Release Date: September 7, 2007 [eBook #22532]

Language: English

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The Bluebird Books


Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman



Josie gets a job as a maid.
Josie gets a job as a maid.—Chapter XII

Mary Louise
And Josie O'Gorman



By
Edith Van Dyne
Author of
"Mary Louise", "Mary Louise in the Country",
"Mary Louise Solves a Mystery", "Mary Louise
and the Liberty Girls", "Mary Louise Adopts
a Soldier", "Mary Louise at Dorfield",
"Mary Louise Stands the Test"

The Reilly company logo.



Frontispiece by
Harry W. Armstrong

The Reilly & Lee Co.
Chicago




Printed in the United States of America



Copyright, 1922
by
The Reilly & Britton Co.


All Rights Reserved




Mary Louise and Josie O'Gorman




CONTENTS

CHAPTER  
I   MARY LOUISE MAKES AN INVESTMENT
II   THE BOARD ELECTS NEW MEMBERS
III   MARY LOUISE TELLS A STORY
IV   JOSIE DONS A HENNA WIG
V   BREAKFAST FOR TWO
VI   A SUCCESSFUL DISGUISE
VII   JOSIE GETS A JOB
VIII   PETER REFUSES NEW PARENTS
IX   JOSIE GETS HER BEARINGS
X   AT MISS DENTON'S DINNER TABLE
XI   JOSIE ENGAGES AN ASSISTANT
XII   CHESTER HUNT'S NEW MAID
XIII   A NEW BROOM SWEEPS CLEAN
XIV   JOSIE JUMPS HER JOB
XV   JOSIE VISITS INDIANA
XVI   JOSIE GETS A RIDE
XVII   HUSBAND AND WIFE
XVIII   CHESTER HUNT CONFESSES
XIX   A HAPPY REUNION




Mary Louise
and Josie O'Gorman

CHAPTER I
MARY LOUISE MAKES AN INVESTMENT

Mary Louise had stood the test of being rich and beloved, and envied by all the daughters of Dorfield; and then of being poor and bereft, pitied by all who had formerly envied her. Soon after the death of her grandfather, Colonel Hathaway, had come the news of her husband's shipwreck. Hope of Danny Dexter's survival was finally abandoned by his sorrowing little wife and his many friends. Colonel Hathaway's comfortable fortune had mysteriously disappeared and Mary Louise faced a future of poverty. With native pluck she arose to the occasion. In spite of her sad heart she showed a cheerful spirit. Joining forces with Josie O'Gorman and Elizabeth Wright in the quaint Higgledy-Piggledy Shop, she opened a millinery department and was soon swamped with orders for smart hats by the elite of Dorfield and old-fashioned bonnets for the ancient ladies who refused to wear hats. When Danny came back, not having gone to a watery grave after all, and the lost fortune was found, Mary Louise again stood the test of being rich and beloved.

"Nothing can spoil our Mary Louise," Josie O'Gorman declared, and Irene Macfarlane smiled from her wheel chair.

"That is because she is pure gold, through and through," said the lame girl as she deftly plied her needle in the cobwebby lace collar she was mending.

"We certainly shall miss her here at the Higgledy-Piggledy," put in Elizabeth Wright. "It doesn't seem like the same place

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