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VICKY VAN

BY CAROLYN WELLS



AUTHOR OF

"The Affair at Flower Acres," "Anybody But Anne,"
"The Mystery of the Sycamore," "Raspberry Jam,"
"The Vanishing of Betty Varian," "Spooky Hollow,"
"Feathers Left Around," etc.




TO

ONE OF MY BEST CHUMS

JULIAN KING SPRAGUE




CONTENTS

CHAPTER
     I. VICKY VAN
    II. MR. SOMERS
   III. THE WAITER'S STORY
    IV. SOMERS' REAL NAME
     V. THE SCHUYLER HOUSEHOLD
    VI. VICKY'S WAYS
   VII. RUTH SCHUYLER
  VIII. THE LETTER BOX
    IX. THE SOCIAL SECRETARY
     X. THE INQUEST
    XI. A NOTE FROM VICKY
   XII. MORE NOTES
  XIII. FLEMING STONE
   XIV. WALLS HAVE TONGUES
    XV. FIBSY
   XVI. A FUTILE CHASE
  XVII. THE GOLD-FRINGED GOWN
 XVIII. FIBSY DINES OUT
   XIX. PROOFS AND MORE PROOFS
    XX. THE TRUTH FROM RUTH




CHAPTER I

VICKY VAN


Victoria Van Allen was the name she signed to her letters and to her
cheques, but Vicky Van, as her friends called her, was signed all over
her captivating personality, from the top of her dainty, tossing head
to the tips of her dainty, dancing feet.

I liked her from the first, and if her "small and earlies" were said