قراءة كتاب Mary Louise Solves a Mystery
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MARY LOUISE
SOLVES A MYSTERY
By
Edith Van Dyne
Author of
"Aunt Jane's Nieces Series"
Frontispiece by
Anna B. Mueller
The Reilly & Lee Co.
Chicago
Copyright, 1917
by
The Reilly & Britton Co.
Mary Louise Solves a Mystery
CONTENTS
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| I | DOCTOR AND PATIENT |
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| II | MOTHER AND DAUGHTER |
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| III | ALORA'S FATHER |
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| IV | ALORA'S NEW LIFE |
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| V | IN THE STUDIO |
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| VI | FLITTING |
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| VII | MARY LOUISE INTRUDES |
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| VIII | MARY LOUISE MEETS ALORA |
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| IX | MARY LOUISE SCENTS A MYSTERY |
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| X | MERE SPECULATION |
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| XI | ALORA SPEAKS FRANKLY |
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| XI | JASON JONES IS FRIGHTENED |
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| XII | SILVIO'S GOLD |
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| XIII | DORFIELD |
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| XIV | HOME AGAIN |
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| XV | THE PUZZLE BECOMES INTRICATE |
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| XVI | ALORA WINS HER WAY |
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| XVII | THE DISAPPEARANCE |
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| XVIII | ON THE TRAIL |
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| XIX | DECOYED |
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| XX | JANET'S TRIUMPH |
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| XXI | THE PRICE OF LIBERTY |
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| XXII | A COMPROMISE |
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| XXIII | MARY LOUISE HAS AN INTUITION |
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| XXIV | AN INTERRUPTION |
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| XXV | JASON JONES |
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| XXVI | WHAT MARY LOUISE ACCOMPLISHED |
Mary Louise Solves a Mystery
CHAPTER I
DOCTOR AND PATIENT
A little girl sat shivering in a corner of a reception room in the fashionable Hotel Voltaire. It was one of a suite of rooms occupied by Mrs. Antoinette Seaver Jones, widely known for her wealth and beauty, and this girl—a little thing of eleven—was the only child of Mrs. Antoinette Seaver Jones, and was named Alora.
It was not cold that made her shiver, for across the handsomely furnished room an open window gratefully admitted the summer sunshine and the summer breeze. Near the window, where the draught came coolest, a middle-aged woman in a sober dress sat reading. Alora did not look at this person but kept her gaze fixed anxiously upon the doorway that led to the corridor, and the spasmodic shudders that at times shook her little body seemed due to nervous fear.
The room was so still that every tick of the Dresden clock could be distinctly heard. When Miss Gorham, Alora's governess,