Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.
A PERILOUS SITUATION.
COUSIN BECKY'S CHAMPIONS
BY
ELEANORA H. STOOKE
AUTHOR OF "ROBIN OF SUN COURT," "GRANFER AND ONE CHRISTMAS TIME," ETC.
WITH TWO FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
BY ISABEL WATKIN
LONDON
NATIONAL SOCIETY'S DEPOSITORY
19, GREAT PETER STREET, WESTMINSTER, S.W.
NEW YORK: THOMAS WHITTAKER, 2 & 3, BIBLE HOUSE
1909
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CONTENTS
Chapter
I. THE HOME IN PRINCESS STREET
IV. COUSIN BECKY'S ARRIVAL AT BEAWORTHY
VII. SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT THE ROOKERY
VIII. COUSIN BECKY FINDS A HOME
XII. COUSIN BECKY TELLS A SECRET
XIV. MR. MARSH DISCOVERS HIS LOSS
XV. EDGAR LEARNS HIS FATHER'S SUSPICION
XVIII. THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CALAIS NOBLE
XX. COUSIN BECKY TAKEN INTO CONFIDENCE
XXII. AN UNFORESEEN EXPERIENCE
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
COUSIN BECKY'S CHAMPIONS
CHAPTER I
THE HOME IN PRINCESS STREET
"TAKE that—and that—and that, and now go home and tell Aunt Janie I'vesmacked her dearie! I don't care if she calls and complains of me tomother—it would be like her to do that!" And the angry speaker—RogerTrent, a boy of about nine years of age—turned on his heel