W. A. WILDE COMPANY

BOSTON AND CHICAGO

Copyright, 1903,
By W. A. Wilde Company.
All rights reserved.

A Gentle Pioneer.
Published in July.

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I.Emigrants[9]
II.The Housewarming[24]
III.A Search[43]
IV.The Unexpected[58]
V.Polly[73]
VI.Jeanie’s Secret[89]
VII.The Intruder[105]
VIII.Archie’s Plan[121]
IX.What the Freshet Brought[139]
X.Honey[155]
XI.At the End of the Visit[170]
XII.Mother[187]
XIII.Plotting[205]
XIV.Jeanie’s Wedding-day[223]
XV.Who had the Will[241]
XVI.A Supper at Parker Willett’s[256]
XVII.In Absence[271]
XVIII.The Overthrow of Humphrey[287]
XIX.Dr. Flint[304]
XX.Her Heart’s Desire[321]

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE
“She stole her arm around her father’s neck”Frontispiece[2]
“Agnes slipped off to a corner where Jeanie found her”[37]
“She drew aside the curtain from the little window”[108]
“Very sweet did the girlish voices sound”[180]
“Parker watched her for a few minutes, not attempting to help”[263]

A GENTLE PIONEER