PREFACE.
=Dear Boys and Girls Who Are Old Friends of the Little Colonel:= When I finished the eighth volume of the Little Colonel Stories, The Maid of Honour, I thought I had reached the end of the series, but such a flood of letters came pouring in demanding to know what happened next, that I could not ignore such a plea, and in consequence The Little Colonel's Knight came riding by.
But even with Lloyd married and "living happily ever after" her friends were not satisfied.

"You skipped" they complained by the hundreds.

"You never told what happened between the time of her engagement and the wedding, and you never told what happened to Betty and Joyce and Mary and Phil and all the rest of them.

Even if you haven't time for another book, couldn't you just please write _me_ a little letter and satisfy my curiosity about each character." Of course I couldn't begin granting all those requests, and finally I was persuaded it would be easier to answer your questions with a new book.

So here is Mary Ware, taking up the thread of the story at the first of the skipped places.