Instead of the Thorn
A Novel
by
Clara Louise Burnham
Boston and New York
Houghton Mifflin Company
COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Published April 1916
TO
C.T.R.
WITH LOVING AND GRATEFUL MEMORIES
OF JOCKEY HILL
Contents
| I. | [At the South Shore] | 1 |
| II. | [Hot Tea] | 10 |
| III. | [Cold Water] | 25 |
| IV. | [The June Night] | 44 |
| V. | [The Cape] | 57 |
| VI. | [The Shingled Cottage] | 73 |
| VII. | [The Days that Followed] | 94 |
| VIII. | [A Business Interview] | 109 |
| IX. | [Correspondence] | 122 |
| X. | [The Spell Breaks] | 134 |
| XI. | [Eastward Ho!] | 145 |
| XII. | [En Route] | 160 |
| XIII. | [Home-Coming] | 174 |
| XIV. | [Blanche Aurora] | 189 |
| XV. | [The Harbor] | 201 |
| XVI. | [The Voice of Truth] | 218 |
| XVII. | [The Rainbow] | 231 |
| XVIII. | [The Pink Dress] | 247 |
| XIX. | [The Wild Rose] | 261 |
| XX. | [Behind the Birches] | 278 |
| XXI. | [Revelation] | 293 |
| XXII. | [The Penitent] | 306 |
| XXIII. | [A Good Neighbor] | 321 |
| XXIV. | [Whitcomb's Confession] | 335 |
| XXV. | [The Man and the Maid] | 350 |
| XXVI | [A Diplomatist] | 366 |
| XXVII. | [The Full Moon] | 379 |