THE WHITE FLAG

BOOKS BY GENE STRATTON-PORTER

Nature

The Song of the Cardinal

Homing With the Birds

Birds of the Bible

Music of the Wild

Friends in Feathers

Moths of the Limberlost

Morning Face

Novels

Freckles

At the Foot of the Rainbow

A Girl of the Limberlost

The Harvester

Laddie

Michael O’Halloran

A Daughter of the Land

Her Father’s Daughter

The White Flag

Poetry

The Fire Bird

“What does my heart know of the heart of a child beating beneath it?”

THE WHITE FLAG

BY

GENE STRATTON-PORTER

FRONTISPIECE

BY

LESTER RALPH

S. B. GUNDY TORONTO

DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK

1923

COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY

GENE STRATTON-PORTER

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION

INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES

AT

THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.

First Edition

TO

THE BOYS AND GIRLS “GROWN TALL”

WITH WHOM, IN CHILDHOOD,

I PASSED UNDER

THE WHITE FLAG

CONTENTS

I[“He That Was Cold and Hungry”]
II[The Gifts of Light and Song]
III[An Inquisition According to Mahlon]
IV[“Strength from Weakness”]
V[The Verdict Goes Against Jezebel]
VI[The Golden Egg]
VII[Field Mice Among the Wheat]
VIII[A Secret Among the Stars]
IX[Sometimes Your Soul Shows]
X[A Trick of the Subconscious]
XI[The Driver of the Chariot]
XII[Those Who Serve]
XIII[Only Three Words]
XIV[The Cloud That Grew]
XV[The Last Straw]
XVI[The Eyes of Elizabeth]
XVII[“A Millstone and the Human Heart”]
XVIII[A Triumph in Millinery]
XIX[Rebecca Pronounces Judgment]
XX[The Decision Marcia Reached]
XXI[“Whatsoever a Man Sows”]
XXII[Behind the Lilac Wall]
XXIII[The Flag on Its Journey]

LIST OF CHARACTERS

Remainder of characters: School children, villagers, a minister, a doctor, a lawyer, etc.