ROSE FINDS A RESTING-PLACE 247 CHAPTER XX PAYING DEBTS 257 CHAPTER XXI THE BOX FROM GREAT-AUNT SARAH 266 CHAPTER XXII QUIET DAYS 275 CHAPTER XXIII A VISIT FROM AN OLD FRIEND 284 CHAPTER XXIV AND COLLEGE NEXT 294 ILLUSTRATIONS “Now I’m Rose, I’m nobody’s Rose!” (Page 270) _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE Out of the door of the cabinet a white, shadowy little figure had lightly floated 32 It was an hour that Posey never forgot 76 “When I get a farm I shall need somebody to keep the house” 144 “Here is a clue to Rose’s family” 216 “Clear Jarvis and no mistake” 238 NOBODY’S ROSE CHAPTER I HOW POSEY CAME ADRIFT Out in the open country the day was dull and grey, with low-hanging clouds and occasional drops of slow-falling rain, but in the city the clouds of smoke hung still lower than those of the sky, and the dropping soot-flakes made black the moisture gathered on the roofs of the houses, the leaves of the trees, and the sidewalks trodden by many feet. It was on a city street, one where the smoke-clouds from the tall chimneys trailed low and the soot fell in its largest flakes, that ever and again a sound asserted itself above the beat of hurrying feet. The sound was not loud, only a little girl sobbing softly to herself as she shrank with her head on her arm at one side of an open stairway; and the words that she repeated over and over to herself, “What shall I do? Where shall I go?” were less in the nature of questions than a lamentation. But children tearful, loudly, even vociferously tearful, were in that vicinity so frequent that people passed and repassed the child without giving to her thought or heed.