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[Illustration: THE GIRL’S OWN PAPER

VOL. XX.—NO. 1015.]      JUNE 10, 1899.      [PRICE ONE PENNY.]




SHEILA’S COUSIN EFFIE.

A STORY FOR GIRLS.

BY EVELYN EVERETT-GREEN, Author of “Greyfriars,” “Half-a-dozen
Sisters,” etc.

[Illustration: “THE MAN GRINNED AND SHOOK HIS HEAD.”]

_All rights reserved._]


CHAPTER X.

AFTER-EFFECTS AND CYRIL.

The whole place was in a tumult. The streets were thronged. Passionate
inquiries and greetings were passing from mouth to mouth. The chief
thing was to get the girls under cover as quickly as possible, out of
the hubbub all round the municipal buildings. The Bensons threw open
their house; the Cossarts did the same. Sheila soon found herself,
together with May Lawrence and Miss Adene, in her aunt’s drawing-room,
where Raby and Ray had preceded them, and they were received with the
warmest effusion by the company