OTHER POPULAR BOOKS BY MARTHA FINLEY ELSIE DINSMORE. ELSIE'S HOLIDAYS AT ROSELANDS. ELSIE'S WOMANHOOD. ELSIE'S WIDOWHOOD. GRANDMOTHER ELSIE. ELSIE'S NEW RELATIONS. ELSIE'S KITH AND KIN. ELSIE'S FRIENDS AT WOODBURN. ELSIE YACHTING WITH THE RAYMONDS. ELSIE AT VIAMEDE. ELSIE AT ION. ELSIE AT THE WORLD'S FAIR. ELSIE'S JOURNEY ON INLAND WATERS. ELSIE AT HOME. ELSIE ON THE HUDSON. ELSIE IN THE SOUTH. ELSIE'S YOUNG FOLKS. ELSIE'S WINTER TRIP. ELSIE AND HER LOVED ONES. MILDRED KEITH. MILDRED AT ROSELANDS. MILDRED'S MARRIED LIFE. MILDRED AND ELSIE. CASELLA. MILDRED AT HOME. MILDRED'S BOYS AND GIRLS. MILDRED'S NEW DAUGHTER. SIGNING THE CONTRACT AND WHAT IT COST. THE TRAGEDY OF WILD RIVER VALLEY. OUR FRED. AN OLD-FASHIONED BOY. WANTED, A PEDIGREE. THE THORN IN THE NEST. Art in RD ELSIE AND THE RAYMONDS ' BY MARTHA FINLEY AUTHOR OF "ELSIE DINSMORE, ""ELSIE'S WOMANHOOD," NEW YORK: DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY PUBLISHERS ELSIE AND THE RAYMONDS. CHAPTER I. "EXCUSE me, Miss, but do you know of any lady who wants a seamstress?" asked a timid, hesitating voice. Lulu Raymond was the person addressed. She and Max had just alighted from the Woodburn family carriage-having been given permission to do a little shopping together-and she had paused upon the pavement for a moment to look after it as it rolled away down the street with her father, who had some business matters to attend to in the city that afternoon, and had appointed a time and place for picking the children up again to carry them home. Tastefully, attired, rosy, and bright with health and happiness, Lulu's appearance was in strange contrast to that of the shabbily dressed girl, with pale, pinched features that wore an expression of patient suffering, who stood by her side. "Were you speaking to me?" Lulu asked, |