title: Embellishments: Constructing Victorian Detail
author:  Astrida Schaeffer 
description: Astrida Schaeffer holds two Master's degrees and has been working with historic fashions and textiles for over twenty-five years as curator, mannequin maker, reproduction seamstress, researcher, and teacher.
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  # Vicky Van
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Carolyn Wells
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  CHAPTER I. VICKY VAN
  
  
  CHAPTER II. MR. SOMERS
  
  
  CHAPTER III. THE WAITER'S STORY
  
  
  CHAPTER IV. SOMERS' REAL NAME
  
  
  CHAPTER V. THE SCHUYLER HOUSEHOLD
  
  
  CHAPTER VI. VICKY'S WAYS
  
  
  CHAPTER VII. RUTH SCHUYLER
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII. THE LETTER-BOX
  
  
  CHAPTER IX. THE SOCIAL SECRETARY
  
  
  CHAPTER X. THE INQUEST
  
  
  CHAPTER XI. A NOTE FROM VICKY
  
  
  CHAPTER XII. MORE NOTES
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII. FLEMING STONE
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV. WALLS HAVE TONGUES
  
  
  CHAPTER XV. FIBSY
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI. A FUTILE CHASE
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII. THE GOLD-FRINGED GOWN
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII. FIBSY DINES OUT
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX. PROOFS AND MORE PROOFS
  
  
  CHAPTER XX. THE TRUTH FROM RUTH
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  
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  JULIAN KING SPRAGUE
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I. VICKY VAN
  
  
  
  
  
    
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