Produced by Al Haines. [Illustration: Cover] [Illustration: "’Princess Sarah,’ he shouted, ’Her Royal Highness Princess Sarah of Nowhere.’" (Page 41.)] PRINCESS SARAH AND OTHER STORIES BY JOHN STRANGE WINTER AUTHOR OF "BOOTLES’ BABY" "MIGNON’S SECRET" "MY POOR DICK" "HE WENT FOR A SOLDIER" ETC ETC LONDON WARD, LOCK & CO LIMITED WARWICK HOUSE SALISBURY SQUARE E C NEW YORK AND MELBOURNE 1897 Contents Princess Sarah CHAPTER I ORPHANED CHAPTER II HER NEW-FOUND AUNT CHAPTER III SARAH’S FUTURE IS ARRANGED CHAPTER IV HER NEW HOME CHAPTER V A TASTE OF THE FUTURE CHAPTER VI THE AMIABLE FLOSSIE CHAPTER VII COUSINLY AMENITIES CHAPTER VIII FLOSSIE’S GRIEVANCES CHAPTER IX AN ASTUTE TELL-PIE CHAPTER X A PLEASANT RAILWAY JOURNEY CHAPTER XI AUNT GEORGE CHAPTER XII SARAH MAKES AN IMPRESSION CHAPTER XIII THE TURNING POINT OF HER LIFE CHAPTER XIV A BRILLIANT MARRIAGE CHAPTER XV A FAMILY CATASTROPHE CHAPTER XVI A CHANGE OF CIRCUMSTANCES CHAPTER XVII SARAH’S OPPORTUNITY MISS MIGNON BOY’S LOVE YUM-YUM: A PUG OUR ADA ELIZABETH HALT! THE LITTLE LADY WITH THE VOICE JEWELS TO WEAR Princess Sarah "Take this lesson to thy heart; That is best which lieth nearest." --Gasper Bacerra CHAPTER I ORPHANED In a poor little street in a crowded city there stood a small house, not alone, but in the middle of a row of other houses exactly like it. There was a tiny bow window on the left of the door, and two very small sash windows in the storey above; the frames were warped, and the paint, like that of the door, was blistered and cracked in many places. And the doorstep looked as if it had been cleaned a week or so before with whiting instead of pipe-clay, and evidently the person who had done it had, doubtless with the very best intentions in the world, given the lower part of the door a few daubs with the same cloth, which had not at all improved its shabby surface.