X. THE UMBRELLA MAN . . . . . . . . . . 237

XI. THE BALKING OF CHRISTOPHER . . . . . . . 267

XII. DEAR ANNIE . . . . . . . . . . . . 293




THE COPY-CAT




THE COPY-CAT

THAT affair of Jim Simmons's cats never became
known. Two little boys and a little girl can
keep a secret -- that is, sometimes. The two little
boys had the advantage of the little girl because they
could talk over the affair together, and the little
girl, Lily Jennings, had no intimate girl friend to
tempt her to confidence. She had only little Amelia
Wheeler, commonly called by the pupils of Madame's
school "The Copy-Cat."

Amelia was an odd little girl -- that is, everybody
called her odd. She was that rather unusual crea-
ture, a child with a definite ideal; and that ideal was
Lily Jennings. However, nobody knew that. If