Produced by Ernest Schaal, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net MISS MILLION'S MAID [Illustration: "_Why, she's going to ask me down there, too, to one of her week-end parties!_"] Miss Million's Maid A Romance of Love and Fortune By BERTA RUCK (Mrs. Oliver Onions) AUTHOR OF "His Official Fiancee," "In Another Girl's Shoes," "The Girls At His Billet," Etc. [Illustration] With Frontispiece By E. C. CASWELL A. L. BURT COMPANY Publishers New York Published by arrangement with DODD, MEAD & COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I THE YOUNG MAN NEXT DOOR . . . . . . 1 II TWO GIRLS IN A KITCHEN . . . . . . 10 III A BOLT FROM THE BLUE . . . . . . . 17 IV THE LAWYER'S DILEMMA . . . . . . . 26 V MILLION LEAVES HER PLACE . . . . . . 31 VI ANOTHER RUMPUS! . . . . . . . . 36 VII MY DEPARTURE . . . . . . . . . 44 VIII I BECOME MILLION'S MAID . . . . . . 53 IX WE MOVE INTO NEW QUARTERS . . . . . . 60 X AN ORGY OF SHOPPING! . . . . . . . 67 XI AN OLD FRIEND OF THE FAMILY . . . . . 72 XII THE DAY OF THE PARTY . . . . . . . 82 XIII MY FIRST "AFTERNOON OUT" . . . . . . 96 XIV CREAM AND COMPLIMENTS . . . . . . 105 XV A DIFFERENT KIND OF PARTY . . . . . . 118 XVI A WORD OF WARNING . . . . . . . . 129 XVII REVELRY BY NIGHT . . . . . . . . 141 XVIII MY FIRST PROPOSAL . . . . . . . . 150 XIX WAITING FOR THE REVELLER . . . . . . 156 XX WHERE IS SHE? . . . . . . . . . 168 XXI AN UNEXPECTED INVASION . . . . . . . 180 XXII HER COUSIN TO THE RESCUE . . . . . . 191 XXIII I START ON THE QUEST . . . . . . . 206 XXIV WE SEEK THE "REFUGE" . . . . . . . 220 XXV FOUND! . . . . . . . . . . 231 XXVI MISS MILLION IN LOVE . . . . . . . 241