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Becky: A Story

Amy Ella Blanchard, Frank T. Merrill (Illustrator)

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1922. ... CHAPTER XX TWO OR THREE DISCOVERIES AFEW days later the four young persons started for the town in which Alicia's parents lived, Rod insisting that Lucas go home with him for the few days he should be there before leaving again for the West. Alicia flew to meet them with open arms, then such a chattering as they kept up! The two boys stayed to lunch, but left soon after, and Alicia bore her friends off up-stairs to see the many curious things she had brought back with her. She had a wonderful embroidered kimono for each of the girls and gave them boxes of queer Eastern sweets, conserved kumquats and other unrecognizable fruits. "There are boxes and boxes of other things that we shall not unpack till we get a house," Alicia told them. "Won't it be fun, girls? You'll have to come and help. There are all the wedding presents, too. It will be like having a wedding all over again." "And you have never heard anything about the pearls?" remarked Eloise, putting a bit of conserved ginger in her mouth. "Not anything. Father had the detectives trying to find out something, but they couldn't get a single clue. The theory is that some one slipped in and picked them up, recognizing that they were valuable. However, girls, I am not without pearls. I must show you what Hal has given me. He was so sorry to have me lose the others that he bought these. We saw them in an antique shop and liked them." She opened a small case and displayed a string of pearls which the girls duly admired. "They aren't so nice as the others," Alicia asserted, "but they were really a bargain, and anyway even if the others had turned up I couldn't have kept them. By the way, how is Eliza, Becky?" "She doesn't seem very well, though she never complains. I think she has failed since her brother's ...

304 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1922