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RED CAPS AND LILIES

By KATHARINE ADAMS

Mehitable: The story of a school in Paris

The Silver Tarn: Mehitable in school in England

Toto and the Gift: A French girl comes to New York

Midsummer: American young people in Sweden

Midwinter: Another mystery story of Sweden today

Wisp: A girl of Dublin

Red Caps and Lilies: Boys and girls during the French Revolution

Thistle Inn: How two girls helped Bonnie Prince Charlie

Blackthorn: A romance of Elizabethan England and Ireland

At The Old Green Mill-Inn

Red Caps and Lilies

By KATHARINE ADAMS

Illustrated by

JAY VAN EVEREN

New York

THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

1943

Copyright, 1924,

By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.

All rights reserved—no part of this book may be

reproduced in any form without permission in writing

from the publisher, except by a reviewer who wishes

to quote brief passages in connection with a review

written for inclusion in magazine or newspaper.

Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1924.

Reprinted January, 1925; April, 1926; June, 1927; May, 1928.

Reissued November, 1932.

Reprinted September, 1934.

January, 1936.

February, 1937.

February, 1938.

December, 1938.

February, 1940.

October, 1941.

July, 1943.

Printed in the United States of America by

THE FERRIS PRINTING COMPANY, NEW YORK

FOR ROSE FILLMORE

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE

I.In the Schoolroom1

II.Marie Josephine’s Secret11

III.The Bal Masqué22

IV.Jean39

V.Inside the Coach52

VI.August Tenth, 179264

VII.At Les Vignes79

VIII.Humphrey Trail101

IX.Dian113

X.In the Snowstorm124

XI.“Tha Must Not Cry Out, Lass”137

XII.Dian Makes a Friend148

XIII.Pigeon Valley Again159

XIV.What Lisle Put in the Cake173

XV.“She Is Like Our Little Mademoiselle”193

XVI.Marie Josephine Is Ready201

XVII.At The Old Green Mill-Inn217

XVIII.Vivi Sees the Other Side of the Gates232

XIX.In the Bakery Shop and Out of It245

XX.Lisle Seeks Adventure256

XXI.In the Hidden Cellar268

XXII.Champar to the Rescue288

XXIII.In Great-aunt Hortense’s House302

XXIV.Through The Gates318

XXV.Out of the Mist339

ILLUSTRATIONS

At the Old Green Mill-InnFrontispiece

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Marie Josephine2

Flambeau16

Lisle28

Jean40

Le Pont62

Humphrey Trail74

Cécile82

Bertran98

Pince Nez118

Grigge126

Dian150

Vivi194

RED CAPS AND LILIES