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Marjorie at Seacote

CHAPTER XII
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Also, I have lovely cousins and four grand-parents and an uncle.

So you see I am well supplied with this world's goods.

So now, good-by, dear Mr.
and Mrs.Geary Both, and with further thanks and obliges, I am, "'Your friend, "'MARJORIE MAYNARD.
"'P.S.

The Jessica Brown was a made-up name.' "Do you think that's all right, King ?" "Yep, it's fine! Seal her up, and write the address and leave it on the hall table, and come on." And so the "bread-and-butter" letter went to Mr.and Mrs.Geary both, and was kept and treasured by them as one of their choicest possessions.
"I knew she was a little lady by the way she pretended not to notice our poor things," said old Zeb.
"I knew by her petticoats," said his wife.
* * * * * And so the episode of Marjorie's runaway passed into history.

Mrs.
Maynard, at first, wanted to give up her part in the play of "The Stepmother," but she was urged by all to retain it, and so she did.


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