E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Jacqueline Jeremy, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 20052-h.htm or 20052-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/0/5/20052/20052-h/20052-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/0/0/5/20052/20052-h.zip) WE TEN Or The Story of the Roses by BARBARA YECHTON Author of "Ingleside," "A Matter of Honor," "Gentle-Heart Stories," "Two Knights-Errant," "Little Saint Hilary," "Christine's Inspiration" With Illustrations by Minna Brown [Illustration: "'OH, PAPA! _PAPA_! SURELY YOU ARE NOT GOING TO _BURN_ THE _FETICH_!'"] New York Dodd, Mead and Company 1896 Copyright, 1896, by Dodd, Mead and Co. All rights reserved. University Press: John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A. TO MY DEAR ONES. _"Thou hast done well thy part, if Thou hast done thy best; As sure as I am God, I answer For the rest."_ CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. ROSES AND ROSES 1 II. IN THE STUDY 17 III. CONCERNING A PERFORMANCE 25 IV. AND A FETICH 43 V. A FRACAS AND AN ARRIVAL 53 VI. DISPOSING OF A FETICH 72 VII. NEW FRIENDS 92 VIII. A RESOLUTION 109 IX. MAX'S WARD 123 X. IN THE SCHOOLROOM 145 XI. AN AFTERNOON RECEPTION 165 XII. IN THE SHADOW 182 XIII. THROUGH THE SHADOW 200 XIV. A MISSION OF THREE 213 XV. SOME MINORS 230 XVI. AND A MAJOR 254 XVII. NORA'S SECRET 274 XVIII. EXPERIENCES AT ENDICOTT BEACH 283 XIX. HIS BROTHER'S KEEPER 322 XX. A SOLEMN PROMISE 346 XXI. THROUGH THE SLOUGH OF DESPOND 367 XXII. AUF WIEDERSEHEN 378 WE TEN, OR THE STORY OF THE ROSES. I. ROSES AND ROSES. TOLD BY JACK.