How Janice Day Won

How Janice Day Won, by Helen Beecher Long

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Title: How Janice Day Won
Author: Helen Beecher Long

Release Date: October 27, 2007 [eBook #23208]
Language: English
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HOW JANICE DAY WON
by
HELEN BEECHER LONG
Author of "Janice Day the Young Homemaker," "The Testing of Janice Day," "The Mission of Janice Day," Etc.
Illustrated by Corinne Turner

The Goldsmith Publishing Co. Cleveland
Copyright, 1917, by Sully & Kleinteich

CONTENTS

I. TROUBLE FROM NEAR AND FAR
II. "TALKY" DEXTER, INDEED
III. "THE SEVENTH ABOMINATION"
IV. A RIFT IN THE HONEYMOON
V. "THE BLUEBIRD--FOR HAPPINESS"
VI. THE TENTACLES OF THE MONSTER
VII. SWEPT ON BY THE CURRENT
VIII. REAL TROUBLE
IX. HOW NELSON TOOK IT
X. HOW POLKTOWN TOOK IT
XI. "MEN MUST WORK WHILE WOMEN MUST WEEP"
XII. AN UNEXPECTED EMERGENCY
XIII. INTO THE LION'S DEN
XIV. A DECLARATION OF WAR
XV. AND NOW IT IS DISTANT TROUBLE
XVI. ONE MATTER COMES TO A HEAD
XVII. THE OPENING OF THE CAMPAIGN
XVIII. HOPEWELL SELLS HIS VIOLIN
XIX. THE GOLD COIN
XX. SUSPICIONS
XXI. WHAT WAS IN THE PAPER
XXII. DEEP WATERS
XXIII. JOSEPH US COMES OUT FOR PROHIBITION
XXIV. ANOTHER GOLD PIECE
XXV. IN DOUBT
XXVI. THE TIDE TURNS
XXVII. THE TEMPEST
XXVIII. THE ENEMY RETREATS
XXIX. THE TRUTH AT LAST
XXX. MARM PARRADAY DOES HER DUTY

HOW JANICE DAY WON
CHAPTER I
TROUBLE FROM NEAR AND FAR
At the corner of High Street, where the lane led back to the stables of the Lake View Inn, Janice Day stopped suddenly, startled by an eruption of sound from around an elbow of the lane--a volley of voices, cat-calls, and ear-splitting whistles which shattered Polktown's usual afternoon somnolence.
One youthful imitator expelled a laugh like the bleating of a goat:
"Na-ha-ha-ha! Ho! Jim Nar-ha-nay! There's a brick in your hat!"
Another shout of laugher and a second boy exclaimed:
"Look out, old feller! You'll spill it!"
All the voices seemed those of boys; but this was an hour when most of the town lads were supposed to be under the more or less eagle eye of Mr. Nelson Haley, the principal of the Polktown school. Janice attended the Middletown Seminary, and this chanced to be a holiday at that institution. She stood anxiously on the corner now to see if her cousin, Marty, was one of this crowd of noisy fellows.
With stumbling feet, and with the half dozen laughing, mocking boys tailing him, a bewhiskered, rough-looking, shabby man came into sight. His appearance on the pleasant main thoroughfare of the little lakeside town quite spoiled the prospect.
Before, it had been a lovely scene. Young Spring, garbed only in the tender greens of the quickened earth and the swelling buds of maple and lilac, had accompanied Janice Day down Hillside Avenue into High Street from the old Day house where she lived with her Uncle Jason, her Aunt 'Mira, and Marty. All the neighbors had seen Janice and had smiled at her; and those whose eyes were anointed by Romance saw Spring dancing by the young girl's side.
Her eyes sparkled; there was a rose in either cheek; her trim figure in the brown frock, well-built walking shoes of tan, and pretty toque, was an effective bit of life in the picture, the background of which was the sloping street to the steamboat dock and the beautiful, blue, dancing waters of the lake beyond.
An intoxicated man on the streets of Polktown during the three years of Janice Day's sojourn here was almost unknown. There had been no demand for the sale of liquor in the town until Lem Parraday, proprietor of the Lake View Inn, applied to the Town Council for a bar license.
The request had been granted without much opposition. Mr. Cross Moore, President of the Council, held a large mortgage on the Parraday premises, and it was whispered that this fact aided in putting the license through in so quiet a way.
It was agreed that Polktown was growing. The "boom" had started some months before. Already the sparkling waters of the lake were plied by a new Constance Colfax, and the C. V. Railroad was rapidly completing its branch which was to connect Polktown with the Eastern seaboard.
Whereas in the past a half dozen traveling men might visit the town in a week and put up at the Inn, there had been through this Winter a considerable stream of visitors. And it was expected that the Inn, as well as every house that took boarders in the town, would be well patronized during the coming Summer.
To Janice Day the Winter had been lovely. She had been very busy. Well had she fulfilled her own