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A Little Miss Nobody

THE OLDEST OF FOUR Or Natalie's Way Out THE GIRLS OF HILLCREST FARM Or The Secret of the Rocks A LITTLE MISS NOBODY Or With the Girls of Pinewood Hall THE GIRL FROM SUNSET RANCH Or Alone in a Great City WYN'S CAMPING DAYS Or The Outing of the Go-Ahead Club FRANCES OF THE RANGES Or The Old Ranchman's Treasure THE GIRLS OF RIVERCLIFF SCHOOL Or Beth Baldwin's Resolve

A Little Miss Nobody

WHEN ORIOLE CAME TO HARBOR LIGHT WHEN ORIOLE TRAVELED WESTWARD

A Little Miss Nobody

Author Of The Oldest of Four, The Girls of Hillcrest Farm, Wyn's Camping Days, Etc.

[Illustration: "GOODNESS ME! YOU'RE A PERFECT MISS NOBODY." Frontispiece (Page 98).]

Copyright, 1914, By Grosset & Dunlap A Little Miss Nobody

I. Miss Nobody from Nowhere 1 II. The Boy in the Millrace 14 III. On the Way To Pinewood 23 IV. Bearding the Lion 29 V. Nancy's Curious Experience 39 VI. The Unrivaled Scorch 47 VII. First Impressions 57 VIII. The Madame 65 IX. Cora Rathmore 74 X. Who Is She, Anyway? 84 XI. On Clinton River 99 XII. The First Advance 112 XIII. It Proves Disastrous 127 XIV. Heaps of Trouble 138 XV. A Great Deal Happens 150 XVI. It Comes to a Head 162 XVII. A Rift in the Clouds 176 XVIII. Better Times 185 XIX. The Races 202 XX. The Freshman Election 212 XXI. Senator Montgomery 222 XXII. Is it a Clue? 235 XXIII. Back To School Again 247 XXIV. The Thanksgiving Masque 260 XXV. Getting on 274 XXVI. Mr. Gordon Again 280 XXVII. The Man in Gray Again 293 XXVIII. Scorch "On the Job" 302 XXIX. All About Nancy 310 XXX. No Longer a Nobody 319

The girls at Higbee School that term had a craze for marking everything they owned with their monograms. Such fads run through schools like the measles.

Their clothing, books, tennis rackets, school-bags--everything that was possible--blossomed with monograms, more or less ornate.

Of course, some girls' initials offered a wider scope than others' for the expression of artistic ideas; but there wasn't a girl in the whole school who couldn't do _something_ with her initials, save Nancy.