CHAPTER PAGE

I. Great Aunt Katherine Commands 1

II. The Boy in the Flowery, Dragony Picture Frame 19

III. The Comrade Does Not Appear 30

IV. Little Orchard House, Beware! 44

V. Kate Makes Up a Face 59

VI. “I Will Pay for It” 69

VII. “Even So——” 86

VIII. Kate Meets a Detective 92

IX. Something of Fairy in It 106

X. In the Mirror 116

XI. Kate Takes the Helm 135

XII. The Special Delivery 149

XIII. “You Thief!” 160

XIV. The Stranger in the Garden 174

XV. Kate on Guard 194

XVI. One End of the String 204

XVII. Into the Orchard House 219

XVIII. The Last Room 236

XIX. Elsie Confides 249

XX. A Farewell in the Dark 261

XXI. Like the Stars 269

THE
VANISHING COMRADE