The Princess and Joe Potter

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Princess and Joe Potter, by James Otis This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Princess and Joe Potter Author: James Otis Illustrator: Violet Oakley Release Date: May 4, 2010 [EBook #32249] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRINCESS AND JOE POTTER *** Produced by David Edwards, Josephine Paolucci and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. THE PRINCESS AND JOE POTTER JOE FINDING THE PRINCESS. (See page 22.) THE PRINCESS AND JOE POTTER BY JAMES OTIS AUTHOR OF "JENNY WREN'S BOARDING-HOUSE," "TEDDY AND CARROTS," ETC. Illustrated by VIOLET OAKLEY BOSTON ESTES AND LAURIAT PUBLISHERS Copyright, 1898 By Estes and Lauriat Colonial Press: Electrotyped and Printed by C. H. Simonds & Co. Boston, U. S. A. CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. A Ruined Merchant 11 II. The Princess 26 III. An Advertisement 41 IV. Joe's Flight 60 V. In the City 73 VI. Dan, the Detective 86 VII. Aunt Dorcas 98 VIII. A Hungry Detective 115 IX. A Fugitive 127 X. The Journey 141 XI. A Bribe 157 XII. A Struggle in the Night 171 XIII. A Confession 188 XIV. A Ray of Light 201 XV. An Unexpected Arrival 219 XVI. The Reward 234 ILLUSTRATIONS.