Front matter

Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.

"You haven't been to see us for ever so long."

Everybody's Business

BY

AGNES GIBERNE

AUTHOR OF

"OLD COMRADES," "LIFE-TANGLES," "WON AT LAST," ETC. ETC.

NEW EDITION

John F. Shaw & Co., Ltd.

Publishers 3, Pilgrim Street, London, E.C.

CONTENTS

CHAP.

I. THE VILLAGE OF OLD MAXHAM

II. A BRAVE VENTURE

III. UPON THE ROCKY REEF

IV. OLD MAXHAM

V. TWO LITTLE DRESSMAKERS

VI. WHAT WOULD BE SAID?

VII. MISS PERKINS' NEW INMATE

VIII. HERO

IX. WHAT WAS TO BE DONE NEXT?

X. JESSIE'S DECLARATION

XI. INNUENDOS

XII. WHAT LIFE LOOKED LIKE TO MILDRED

XIII. SOMETHING FOR MILDRED TO DO

XIV. THE CHANGE IN JESSIE

XV. ENGAGED

XVI. THE LIFEBOAT

XVII. MAKING A COLLECTION

XVIII. WHO COULD HAVE SENT IT?

XIX. JESSIE'S WONDERINGS

XX. RUN OVER

XXI. THE TELLING OF THE NEWS

XXII. DIFFICULTIES

XXIII. WHAT JESSIE WOULD SAY

XXIV. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE

XXV. THE NEW LIFEBOAT

XXVI. MR. WILLOUGHBY'S AFFAIR

XXVII. ANOTHER GALE

EVERYBODY'S BUSINESS