title: The Best Friends Club: A Lizzie and Harold story
author:  Elizabeth Winthrop 
description: Lizzie learns to share her best friend and enjoy it, too.
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  # The Profiteers
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### E. Phillips Oppenheim
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
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  CHAPTER I
  
  
  CHAPTER II
  
  
  CHAPTER III
  
  
  CHAPTER IV
  
  
  CHAPTER V
  
  
  CHAPTER VI
  
  
  CHAPTER VII
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII
  
  
  CHAPTER IX
  
  
  CHAPTER X
  
  
  CHAPTER XI
  
  
  CHAPTER XII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIV
  
  
  CHAPTER XV
  
  
  CHAPTER XVI
  
  
  CHAPTER XVII
  
  
  CHAPTER XVIII
  
  
  CHAPTER XIX
  
  
  CHAPTER XX
  
  
  CHAPTER XXI
  
  
  CHAPTER XXII
  
  
  CHAPTER XXIII
  
  
  CHAPTER XXIV
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  E-text prepared by Juliet Sutherland, Mary Meehan, and the
  
  
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  THE PROFITEERS
  
  
  BY E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM
  
  
  1921
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
    
  The Marchioness of Amesbury was giving a garden party in the
  
  
  spacious but somewhat urban grounds of her mansion in Kensington.
  
  
  Perhaps because it was the first affair of its sort of the season, and
  
  
  perhaps, also, because Cecilia Amesbury had the knack of making friends
  
  
  in ever