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Joyce's Investments: A Story for Girls

Joyce's Investments: A Story for Girls

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JOYCE'S INVESTMENTS

A STORY FOR GIRLS

By FANNIE E. NEWBERRY

Author of "All Aboard," "Bubbles," etc., etc.

A. L. BURT COMPANY,
PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK.

Copyright, 1899,
By A. I. BRADLEY & CO.


"Women have the genius of charity,
A man gives but his gold;
Woman adds to it her sympathy."

"What a bright-eyed baby! May I come in for a minute and talk with you?" said Joyce.


CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. Legal Advice
CHAPTER II. Old Friends
CHAPTER III. Joyce's Interests
CHAPTER IV. The Works and Workmen
CHAPTER V. Among the Cottages
CHAPTER VI. Fresh Glimpses
CHAPTER VII. The Hapgoods and Nate
CHAPTER VIII. Littleton Reviewed
CHAPTER IX. Dan
CHAPTER X. At the Bonnivels'
CHAPTER XI. The Social House
CHAPTER XII. The House-Warming
CHAPTER XIII. Some Encounters
CHAPTER XIV. Joyce and Her Manager
CHAPTER XV. Mother Flaherty's Telephone
CHAPTER XVI. On a Trail
CHAPTER XVII. Dodo
CHAPTER XVIII. Nate Tierney
CHAPTER XIX. In the Cage
CHAPTER XX. Sorrow
CHAPTER XXI. In the Lock-up
CHAPTER XXII. A Visit to Lozcoski
CHAPTER XXIII. Waiting for the Train
CHAPTER XXIV. Night Watchers
CHAPTER XXV. Camille Speaks Out
CHAPTER XXVI. Not Welcome
CHAPTER XXVII. Night Happenings
CHAPTER XXVIII. Visiting the Shut-ins
CHAPTER XXIX. A Dream Ended
CHAPTER XXX. A Railroad Wedding

BOOKS FOR GIRLS.


JOYCE'S INVESTMENT.


CHAPTER I.

LEGAL ADVICE.

The old lawyer caressed his smoothly shaven chin and gazed out at Joyce Lavillotte from under his shaggy eyebrows, as from the port-holes of a castle, impressing her as being quite as inscrutable of aspect and almost as belligerent. She, flushed and bright-eyed, leaned forward with an appealing air, opposing the resistless vigor of youth to the impassiveness of age.

"It is not the crazy scheme you think it, Mr. Barrington," she said in that liquid voice which was an inheritance from her creole ancestry, "and I do not mean to risk my last dollar. You know I have means that cannot be touched. Why should you be so sure I cannot manage the Works—especially when Mr. Dalton is so capable and——"

The lawyer uttered something between a grunt and a laugh.

"It's Mr. Dalton who will manage it all. What do you know of the Works?"

"No, he will not, Mr. Barrington. The factory, of course, is his province, but the village shall be mine. You think, because I am not yet twenty-two, that I do not know my own mind, but you forget how long I have been motherless; and a girl has to think for herself when her

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