[Gutenberg 41052] • The Hallowell Partnership
- Authors
- Brown, Katharine Holland
- Publisher
- Charles Scribner's Sons
- Tags
- illinois -- fiction , brothers and sisters -- fiction , civil engineers -- fiction , invalids -- fiction , young women -- conduct of life -- fiction
- Date
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 0.52 MB
- Lang
- en
WHEN SLOW-COACH GOT HIS FIGHTING CHANCE "Rod!" No answer. "Rod, what did that messenger boy bring? A special-delivery letter? Is it anything interesting?" Marian Hallowell pushed Empress from her knee and turned on her pillows to look at Roderick, her brother, who sat absorbed and silent at his desk. Roderick did not move. Only Empress cocked a topaz eye, and rubbed her orange-tawny head against Marian's chair