Front matter
Reading edition
AMARILLY OF CLOTHES-LINE ALLEY MILDEW MANCE OUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBORS
“What’s your rush?” I asked, when I had overtaken him. Frontispiece. See page 114.
Our Next-Door Neighbors
By
Belle Kanaris Maniates
With illustrations by
Tony Sarg
Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1917
Copyright, 1917,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published February, 1917
Norwood Press Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. Presswork by The Colonial Press, Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
I About Silvia and Myself 1
II Introducing Our Next-door Neighbors 9
III In Which We Are Pestered by Polydores 28
IV In Which We Take Boarders 45
V In Which We Take a Vacation 62
VI A Flirt and a Woman-Hater 78
VII In Which Nothing Much Happens 91
VIII Ptolemy Disappears and I Visit a Haunted House 100
IX In Which We See Ghosts 124
X In Which We Make Some Discoveries 139
XI A Bad Means to a Good End 153
XII “Too Much Polydores” 165
XIII Rob’s Friend the Reporter 174
XIV A Midnight Excursion 196
XV What Miss Frayne Found Out 204
XVI Ptolemy’s Tale 214
XVII All About Uncle Issachar’s Visit 230
XVIII In Which I Decide on Extreme Measures 255
XIX Which Has to Do with Some Letters 268
XX “The Money We Earnt for You” 277
“What’s your rush?” I asked, when I had overtaken him. Frontispiece
Uncle Issachar 10
Dr. Felix Polydore 23
“Lucien Wade!” she gasped. “Here are our letters to Beth and Rob.” 81
He pleaded eloquently to be taken with us. 103
I babbled aimlessly to myself and then managed to pull together and beat it to the lake 127
The landlady intears waylaid me 133
I had to carry Diogenes most of the way 169
Now and then above his howls, I heard Silvia’s plaintive protests outside the door 193
I held out my hand, which he shook solemnly, but with an injured air 225
“He went to the front window and dropped a young kitten down on the old gent’s head.” 243
“We heard a suppressed sneeze, and Rob pulled Emerald from underneath.” 257
OUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOURS
