












LADDIE

A TRUE BLUE STORY


by

GENE STRATTON PORTER




To

LEANDER ELLIOT STRATTON

"The Way to Be Happy Is to Be Good"




Contents


CHAPTER

     I.  Little Sister
    II.  Our Angel Boy
   III.  Mr. Pryor's Door
    IV.  The Last Day in Eden
     V.  The First Day of School
    VI.  The Wedding Gown
   VII.  When Sally Married Peter
  VIII.  The Shropshire and the Crusader
    IX.  "Even So"
     X.  Laddie Takes the Plunge
    XI.  Keeping Christmas Our Way
   XII.  The Horn of the Hunter
  XIII.  The Garden of the Lord
   XIV.  The Crest of Eastbrooke
    XV.  Laddie, the Princess, and the Pie
   XVI.  The Homing Pigeon
  XVII.  In Faith Believing
 XVIII.  The Pryor Mystery




LADDIE

CHARACTERS

  LADDIE, Who Loved and Asked No Questions.
  THE PRINCESS, From the House of Mystery.
  LEON, Our Angel Child.
  LITTLE SISTER, Who Tells What Happened.
  MR. and MRS. STANTON, Who Faced Life Shoulder to Shoulder.
  SALLY and PETER, Who Married Each Other.
  ELIZABETH, SHELLEY, MAY and Other Stanton Children.
  MR. and MRS. PRYOR, Father and Mother of the Princess.
  ROBERT PAGET, a Chicago Lawyer.
  MRS. FRESHETT, Who Offered Her Life for Her Friend.
  CANDACE, the Cook.
  MISS AMELIA