Produced by Jacqueline Jeremy, Stephen Hope, Fox in the Stars and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net WHILE CAROLINE WAS GROWING BOOKS ABOUT CHILDREN BY JOSEPHINE DASKAM BACON THE MADNESS OF PHILIP MEMOIRS OF A BABY BIOGRAPHY OF A BOY THE IMP AND THE ANGEL SISTER'S VOCATION TEN TO SEVENTEEN THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK . BOSTON . CHICAGO . SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON . BOMBAY . CALCUTTA . MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO WHILE CAROLINE WAS GROWING BY JOSEPHINE DASKAM BACON _ILLUSTRATED_ NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1911 * * * * * _All rights reserved_ Copyright, 1906, by P. F. Collier & Son Copyright, 1907, by the S. S. McClure Co. Copyright, 1909, by the S. S. McClure Co., Benjamin B. Hampton, P. F. Collier & Son, and by the Phelps Publishing Company * * * * * Copyright, 1911, by The Macmillan Company * * * * * Set up and Electrotyped. Published March, 1911 Norwood Press: Berwick & Smith Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A. To S. B. long Caroline's admirer, from J. D. B. CONTENTS PAGE I. AN IDYL OF THE ROAD 1 II. A LITTLE VICTORY FOR THE GENERAL 38 III. THE PRIZE 77 IV. WHERE THIEVES BREAK IN 113 V. A PILLAR OF SOCIETY 158 VI. HIS FATHER'S HOUSE 202 VII. THE PRETENDERS 235 VIII. A WATCH IN THE NIGHT 269 IX. THE ENDS OF THE EARTH 297 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE With a great sweep of her arm, she brushed aside a portiere and disappeared. 66 "Sh! sh!" he whispered excitedly, "not a vordt! Not a vordt! Mein Gott! but it is marvellous." 74 "What are you doing here, little girl?" he demanded sternly. 118 Caroline danced, bowing and posturing in a bewitched abandon, around the tinkling, glistening fountain. 274 Across the court was a lighted room with a long French window, and in the center of this window there sat in a high, carved chair a very old woman. 282 Caroline was not a hundred yards away, sheltering under a heavy arbor vitae, flat on her stomach. 299 WHILE CAROLINE WAS GROWING * * * * * I AN IDYL OF THE ROAD Caroline rocked herself back and forth from her waist, defying the uncompromisingly straight chair which inclosed her portly little person.