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                           "The Little Missis"

                           By Charlotte Skinner

_Author of "Doctor Phill," "The Master's Messages to Women," etc._


    With Six Illustrations

    LONDON
    S. W. PARTRIDGE & CO. LTD.
    OLD BAILEY




[Illustration: "'SEE HOW CAREFULLY HE IS HELPING HER OUT OF THE CAB.'"]




CONTENTS


I. HIS PURPOSE

II. THE HOME-COMING

III. A GARDEN LEVEE

IV. A TESTING TIME

V. WILL GOD ANSWER?

VI. THE DARKNESS DEEPENS

VII. THE LAME SHEPHERD

VIII. A TWOFOLD PARTNERSHIP

IX. A WOM