This etext was transcribed by Les Bowler. [Picture: Book cover] [Picture: Being thrown by Paprika] AZALEA’S SILVER WEB BY ELIA W. PEATTIE Author of Azalea; Annie Laurie and Azalea; Azalea at Sunset Gap, etc. _Illustrations by_ _E. R. Kirkbride_ * * * * * [Picture: Publisher logo] * * * * * The Reilly & Britton Co. Chicago * * * * * Copyright, 1915 by The Reilly & Britton Co. * * * * * CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I GROWN GIRLS 9 II NEW RELATIONS 27 III OWN FOLK 46 IV MADAM GRANDMOTHER 64 V MALLOWBANKS 82 VI MY BALL 101 VII GETTING SETTLED 120 VIII THE PORTRAIT 139 IX GRANDMOTHER’S STORY 158 X “THE WATERS OF QUIET” 177 XI A FRIEND 195 XII A TRAVEL LOG 212 XIII CROSSROADS 231 XIV “WHERE THERE IS A WILL” 250 XV “RING, HAPPY BELLS” 267 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS So, in a moment more I felt myself—I who had never _Frontispiece_ been thrown in my life—going over Paprika’s head We stepped back in the shrubbery and kept very 84 still while they passed. Grandmother was weeping like a hurt child Azalea’s Coming Out Party 114 It was Keefe O’Connor who stood there holding out 276 his hands to me CHAPTER I GROWN GIRLS Tennyson Mountain, N. C., October 6. _Carin_, _dear and far_: