Produced by Sue Clark and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) THE LITTLE ROOM AND OTHER STORIES [Illustration: “You don’t s’pose she _set_ it on fire?”] THE LITTLE ROOM AND OTHER STORIES BY MADELINE YALE WYNNE [Illustration] CHICAGO WAY & WILLIAMS 1895 COPYRIGHT BY WAY AND WILLIAMS MDCCCXCV _Decorations by the Author_ CONTENTS. PAGE THE LITTLE ROOM 7 THE SEQUEL TO THE LITTLE ROOM 41 MY GHOST OF A CHANCE 77 IN GRANADA 91 THE VOICE 105 THE SCARF 119 [_Thanks are due to the Editors of “Harper’s Magazine” for permission to reprint “The Little Room” from the number for August, 1895._] THE LITTLE ROOM. ‘How would it do for a smoking-room?’ ‘Just the very place! only, you know, Roger, you must not think of smoking in the house. I am almost afraid that having just a plain, common man around, let alone a smoking man, will upset Aunt Hannah. She is New England--Vermont New England--boiled down.’ ‘You leave Aunt Hannah to me; I’ll find her tender side. I’m going to ask her about the old sea-captain and the yellow calico.’ ‘Not yellow calico--blue chintz.’ ‘Well, yellow _shell_ then.’ ‘No, no! don’t mix it up so; you won’t know yourself what to expect, and that’s half the fun.’ ‘Now you tell me again exactly what to expect; to tell the truth, I didn’t half hear about it the other day; I was wool-gathering. It was something queer that happened when you were a child, wasn’t it?’ ‘Something that began to happen long before that, and kept happening, and may happen again; but I hope not.’ ‘What was it?’ ‘I wonder if the other people in the car can hear us?’ ‘I fancy not; we don’t hear them--not consecutively, at least.’ ‘Well, mother was born in Vermont, you know; she was the only child by a second marriage. Aunt Hannah and Aunt Maria are only half-aunts to me, you know.’ ‘I hope they are half as nice as you are.’ ‘Roger, be still; they certainly will hear us.’ ‘Well, don’t you want them to know we are married?’ ‘Yes, but not just married. There’s all the difference in the world.’ ‘You are afraid we look too happy!’ ‘No; only I want my happiness all to myself.’ ‘Well, the little room?’