title: Patches: Stories To Ponder
author: Mary Anne Spiller
description: Mary Anne Spiller (Barnheiser) is a long-time High School English teacher who has been writing since she was a teenager. She is married to a math teacher, Joe Barnheiser, who joins their three grown children in supporting Mary Anne in all of her creative endeavors. She is most at home writing short stories but is currently working on a novel.
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  # Love Stories
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Mary Roberts Rinehart
  
  
  This page formatted 2005 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  TWENTY-TWO
  
  
  JANE
  
  
  IN THE PAVILION
  
  
  GOD'S FOOL
  
  
  THE MIRACLE
  
  
  “ARE WE DOWNHEARTED? NO!”
  
  
  THE GAME
  
  
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  THE WORKS OF
  
  
  MARY ROBERTS RINEHART
  
  
  
  
  
  LOVE STORIES
  
  
  
  
  
  THE REVIEW OF REVIEWS COMPANY Publishers NEW YORK
  
  
  PUBLISHED BY ARRANGEMENT WITH GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY.
  
  
  Copyright, 1919, By George H. Doran Company
  
  
  Copyright, 1912, 1913, 1916, by the Curtis Publishing Company
  
  
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  LOVE STORIES
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## TWENTY-TWO
  
  
  I
  
  
  The Probationer's name was really Nella Jane Brown, but she was
  
  
  entered in the training school as N. Jane Brown. However, she meant
  
  
  when she was accepted to be plain Jane Brown. No