THE LITTLE ROOM
AND OTHER STORIES
s’pose
she set it
on fire?”
THE LITTLE ROOM
AND OTHER STORIES
BY
MADELINE YALE WYNNE
CHICAGO
WAY & WILLIAMS
1895
COPYRIGHT
BY WAY AND WILLIAMS
MDCCCXCV
Decorations by the Author
CONTENTS.
| PAGE | |
| The Little Room | 7 |
| The Sequel to The Little Room | 41 |
| My Ghost of a Chance | 77 |
| In Granada | 91 |
| The Voice | 105 |
| The Scarf | 119 |
THE LITTLE ROOM.
‘HOW would it do for a smoking-room?’
‘Just the very place! only, you know, Roger, you must not think ofsmoking in the house. I am almost afraid that having just a plain,common man around, let alone a smoking man, will upset Aunt Hannah. Sheis New England—Vermont New England—boiled down.’
‘You leave Aunt Hannah to me; I’ll find her tender side. I’m going toask her about the old sea-captain and the yellow calico.’
‘Not yellow calico—blue chintz.’
‘Well, yellow shell then.’
‘No, no! don’t mix it up so; you won’t8 know yourself what to expect,and that’s half the fun.’
‘Now you tell me again exactly what to expect; to tell the truth, Ididn’t half hear about it the other day; I was wool-gathering. It wassomething queer that happened when you were a child, wasn’t it?’
‘Something that began to happen long before that, and kept happening,and may happen again; but I hope not.’
‘What was it?’
‘I wonder if the other people in the car can hear us?’
‘I fancy no