The long way

THE LONG WAY
MARY IMLAY TAYLOR
AUTHOR OF CALEB TRENCH, THE IMPERSONATOR, THE REAPING, ETC.
BOSTON
LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY
1913
Copyright, 1913 , By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved
Published, May, 1913
THE COLONIAL PRESS C.H. SIMONDS & CO., BOSTON, U.S.A.
LADY HELEN
Rachel Leven stopped on the landing and laid both hands on the banister. She was experiencing a new and curious sensation of unreality, and her impulse to touch something solid was rather to assure herself that her own personality had survived unchanged, than from any physical need of support.