Meg's Friend: A Story for Girls

								


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MEG'S FRIEND.
A Story for Girls.
by
ALICE CORKRAN,
Author of "Margery Merton's Girlhood," "Down the Snow
Stairs," "Joan's Adventures," etc., etc.
With Five Full-Page Illustrations by Robert Fowler.

New York:
A. L. Burt, Publisher.

CONTENTS.

  CHAPTER I.                                       PAGE

    Meg                                               1
CHAPTER II.

    Two Years Later                                  21
CHAPTER III.

    Meg to the Rescue                                36
CHAPTER IV.

    Farewell                                         54
CHAPTER V.

    A Mysterious Visit                               62
CHAPTER VI.

    Miss Reeve's Establishment for Young Ladies      74
CHAPTER VII.

    At School                                        85
CHAPTER VIII.

    The School Annual                               100
CHAPTER IX.

    Drifting Away                                   111
CHAPTER X.

    Rebellion                                       121
CHAPTER XI.

    Away                                            131
CHAPTER XII.

    An Acquaintance by the Way                      142
CHAPTER XIII.

    The Old Gentleman Again                         153
CHAPTER XIV.

    Who Gave that Kiss?                             165
CHAPTER XV.

    Miss Pinkett's Diamond                          172
CHAPTER XVI.

    The Party                                       183
CHAPTER XVII.

    Poor Meg                                        192
CHAPTER XVIII.

    Peace                                           205
CHAPTER XIX.

    Who Is He?                                      217
CHAPTER XX.

    Arrival                                         228
CHAPTER XXI.

    Sir Malcolm Loftdale                            241
CHAPTER XXII.

    The Editor of the Greywolds Mercury           257
CHAPTER XXIII.

    Friend or Foe                                   268
CHAPTER XXIV.

    Friend!                                         277
CHAPTER XXV.

    For "Auld Lang Syne."                           288
CHAPTER XXVI.

    Before the Picture                              305
CHAPTER XXVII.

    In the Editor's Office                          316

MEG'S FRIEND.

CHAPTER I.
MEG.

It was a queer old house in Bloomsbury, that had been fashionable some
two hundred years ago, and had fallen into abject neglect. The hall door
was dim for want of paint, and weatherbeaten to a dirty gray; the lower