Contents
Chapter 1. Coming Home
Chapter 2. Old Friends with New Faces
Chapter 3. Miss Campbell
Chapter 4. Thorns Among the Roses
Chapter 5. Prince Charming
Chapter 6. Polishing Mac
Chapter 7. Phebe
Chapter 8. Breakers Ahead
Chapter 9. New Year's Calls
Chapter 10. The Sad and Sober Part
Chapter 11. Small Temptations
Chapter 12. At Kitty's Ball
Chapter 13. Both Sides
Chapter 14. Aunt Clara's Plan
Chapter 15. Alas for Charlie!
Chapter 16. Good Works
Chapter 17. Among the Haycocks
Chapter 18. Which Was It?
Chapter 19. Behind the Fountain
Chapter 20. What Mac Did
Chapter 21. How Phebe Earned Her Welcome
Chapter 22. Short and Sweet
Chapter 1 COMING HOME
Three young men stood together on a wharf one bright October day
awaiting the arrival of an ocean steamer with an impatience which found
a vent in lively skirmishes with a small lad, who pervaded the premises
like a will-o'-the-wisp and afforded much amusement to the other groups
assembled there.
"They are the Campbells, waiting for their cousin, who has been abroad
several years with her uncle, the doctor," whispered one lady to another
as the handsomest of the young men touched his hat to her as he passed,
lugging the boy, whom he had just rescued from a little expedition down
among the piles.
"Which is that?" asked the stranger.
"Prince Charlie, as he's called a fine fellow, the most promising of the
seven, but a little fast, people say," answered the first speaker with a
shake of the head.
"Are the others his brothers?"
"No, cousins. The elder is Archie, a most exemplary young man. He has
just gone into business with the merchant uncle and bids fair to be an
honor to his family. The other, with the eyeglasses and no gloves, is
Mac, the odd one, just out of college."
"And the boy?"
"Oh, he is Jamie, the youngest brother of Archibald, and the pet of the
whole family. Mercy on us he'll be in if they don't hold on to him!"
