Chapter I About Silvia and Myself
Chapter II Introducing Our Next-door Neighbors
Chapter III In Which We Are Pestered by Polydores
Chapter IV In Which We Take Boarders
Chapter V In Which We Take a Vacation
Chapter VI A Flirt and a Woman-Hater
CHAPTER VII In Which Nothing Much Happens
CHAPTER VIII Ptolemy Disappears and I Visit a Haunted House
Chapter IX In Which We See Ghosts
Chapter X In Which We Make Some Discoveries
Chapter XI A Bad Means to a Good End
Chapter XII " Too Much Polydores "
Chapter XIII Rob's Friend the Reporter
Chapter XIV A Midnight Excursion
Chapter XV What Miss Frayne Found Out
Chapter XVI Ptolemy's Tale
Chapter XVII All About Uncle Issachar's Visit
Chapter XVIII In Which I Decide on Extreme Measures
Chapter XIX Which Has to Do with Some Letters
Chapter XX "The Money We Earnt for You"
By Belle K. Maniates
| AMARILLY OF CLOTHES-LINE ALLEY
MILDEW MANCE
OUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBORS |
“What’s your rush?” I asked, when I had overtaken him.
Frontispiece. See page 114.
Our Next-Door
Neighbors
By
Belle Kanaris Maniates
With illustrations by
Tony Sarg
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Boston
Little, Brown, and Company
1917
Copyright, 1917,
By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published February, 1917
Norwood Press
Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
Presswork by The Colonial Press, Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
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| I | About Silvia and Myself | 1 |
| II | Introducing Our Next-door Neighbors | 9 |
| III | In Which We Are Pestered by Polydores | 28 |
| IV | In Which We Take Boarders | 45 |
| V | In Which We Take a Vacation | 62 |
| VI | A Flirt and a Woman-Hater | 78 |
| VII | In Which Nothing Much Happens | 91 |
| VIII | Ptolemy Disappears and I Visit a Haunted House | 100 |
| IX | In Which We See Ghosts | 124 |
| X | In Which We Make Some Discoveries | 139 |
| XI | A Bad Means to a Good End | 153 |
| XII | “Too Much Polydores” | 165 |
| XIII | Rob’s Friend the Reporter | 174 |
| XIV | A Midnight Excursion | 196 |
| XV | What Miss Frayne Found Out | 204 |
| XVI | Ptolemy’s Tale | 214 |
| XVII | All About Uncle Issachar’s Visit | 230 |
| XVIII | In Which I Decide on Extreme Measures | 255 |
| XIX | Which Has to Do with Some Letters | 268 |
| XX | “The Money We Earnt for You” | 277 |
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| “What’s your rush?” I asked, when I had overtaken him. | Frontispiece |
| Uncle Issachar | 10 |
| Dr. Felix Polydore | 23 |
| “Lucien Wade!” she gasped. “Here are our letters to Beth and Rob.” | 81 |
| He pleaded eloquently to be taken with us. | 103 |
| I babbled aimlessly to myself and then managed to pull together and beat it to the lake | 127 |
| The landlady intears waylaid me | 133 |
| I had to carry Diogenes most of the way | 169 |
| Now and then above his howls, I heard Silvia’s plaintive protests outside the door | 193 |
| I held out my hand, which he shook solemnly, but with an injured air | 225 |
| “He went to the front window and dropped a young kitten down on the old gent’s head.” | 243 |
| “We heard a suppressed sneeze, and Rob pulled Emerald from underneath.” | 257 |
OUR NEXT-DOOR NEIGHBOURS
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