Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net Little Lost Sister ------------------------------------------------------------------------- "It isn't always the costume of women of fashion ... or the blazing resplendent show-window that tempts Little Lost Sisters. It is more often just the human need for love and shelter ... the lack of a friendly handclasp that shall lighten tomorrow's labor ... the sympathy and understanding that breeds hope" ------------------------------------------------------------------------- LITTLE LOST SISTER By VIRGINIA BROOKS Author of "MY BATTLES WITH VICE" New York THE MACAULAY COMPANY ------------------------------------------------------------------------- COPYRIGHT, 1914, By F. A. P. GAZZOLO AND R. E. RICKSEN, All Rights Reserved ------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE Prologue 13 I At the Button Mill 17 II Seeing Millville 27 III Enter a Detective 37 IV Harvey Meets "A Dealer in Cattle" 49 V A Serpent Whispers and a Woman Listens 57 VI A Romance Dawns--and a Tragedy 67 VII Harry Boland Hears from His Father 77 VIII The Death of Tom Welcome 85 IX In Which Some of Chicago's Best People Essay a Task Too Big for Them 95 X The Adventures of a Newspaper Story 115 XI A Bomb for Mr. Grogan 133 XII Bad News from Millville 145 XIII The Reader Meets Another Old Acquaintance 155 XIV In Which the Wolf is Bitten by the Lamb 165 XV The Search Begins for the Lost Sister 173 XVI John Boland Meets Mary Randall 185 XVII The Cafe Sinister 203 XVIII Lost in the Levee 219 XIX Mary Randall Goes to Live in a Wolf's Den 229 XX Druce Signs a Significant Document 241 XXI Druce Proves a True Prophet 253 XXII "The Mills of the Gods" 261