Those Dale Girls

Radnor society was all agog over the second appearance of Monsieur Grémond, and no sooner was his coming made known than Renshawe was fairly deluged with invitations for his guest.

Madame Grundy was saying that winter that at last Kenneth Landor had settled down, though why he should take the trouble to burden himself with business cares when he had a rich...

The change to Virginia was perhaps appreciated by no one more than Peter Snooks, that by no means unimportant member of the Dale family, whose activity knew no bounds. He raced...

There was no announcement of Julie's engagement except to the household of Wavertree Hall. Her marriage was likely to take place early in the summer, for Dr. Ware was to attend...

The order for the wedding-cake which had been a cause of such tribulation to the girls had come through Mrs. Lennox for a young cousin of her husband's in whose marriage she was...

"Hester, 'we have arrived,' as they say in France. This has been a momentous month. We've sent out our cards and bought our first groceries at wholesale." Julie leaned her elbow...

"A conspiracy having been formed for the purpose of circumventing fate, the initial step is herewith taken in the form of the enclosed paltry bill, intending it to be the foreru...

It was a dismal rainy afternoon, and the work of the day having been finished early the girls were ensconced in their little sitting-room reveling in a well-earned rest. By the...

Under the most favorable auspices a military camp entails labor, but to the volunteers who assembled in Virginia that spring and broke ground for what afterward became known as...

Mrs. Driscoe was not a reasonable woman, never had been reasonable, had no desire to be reasonable; it was therefore not to be expected that she would take a reasonable attitude...

The weeks passed rapidly to the young workers, who found each day full of experiments, sometimes developing into satisfactory results and again filled with bitter discouragement...

Comfortably ensconced in a victoria, two men were bowling out through the suburbs of Radnor in the rapidly approaching dusk of a winter afternoon. One, wrapped to the chin in fu...

That spring would always be a memorable one both to the girls and the country at large, for momentous events followed one upon another in rapid succession. War was declared with...

It is not until a great crisis is past that one comprehends with any clearness of vision the multitudinous events that whirl about the one supreme fact. Stunned by the first sho...

Hester never remembered leaving the car or how she got home after the fatal catastrophe, but indelibly printed on Julie's mind would always be the picture of a wide-eyed breathl...

"Why don't you answer the first time I call you? Come here and go hunt the Colonel and tell him I want him directly. He is around the house somewhere."

Mrs. Lennox was giving one of those little dinners for which she was justly famous. To-night it was in honor of Monsieur Jules Grémond, the young African explorer who was paying...

It was said of Mr. Dale by those of his friends' wives who felt at liberty to discuss his affairs with their husbands, that his bringing up of his daughters was radically wrong....

"Oh! that's all right," said Jack cheerily, "it will keep, you know, and they were in a hurry--they said they could only stop a moment." Jack was puzzling his young brain over t...

"Julie, it is too absolutely appalling to realize!" Hester pressed her nose against the window and looked out over the river dejectedly. A fresh September gale was blowing, ruff...

"Look at her, Peter Snooks," said Hester to a fox-terrier at her side; "just look at her! She's curled up in a heap, reveling in that fascinating Kipling, with her mouth all scr...

"Remarkably surprising, I mean," corrected Miss Ware, fingering the coffee-cups noisily in rather an irritating manner as it seemed to her brother, who was running over his volu...

Julie was in bed, but not asleep, when Hester came in that night, and propped herself up on her elbow to listen with absorbed interest while she gave an account of herself.

They made the run to Tampa in two days. The transports were being loaded with ammunition, provisions and all the paraphernalia of war as they arrived and Kenneth went on board w...

"Very well, dear, and if it pleases you to watch Julie's eloquent face--and I assure you Hester's is equally so--Mr. Dale shall be the chief topic of conversation. I never knew...