Philadelphia & London
J. B. Lippincott Company
1901

Copyright, 1901
By J. B. Lippincott Company
Electrotyped and Printed by
J. B. Lippincott Company, Philadelphia, U. S. A.

DEDICATED
WITH DEEP AFFECTION AND PROFOUND ADMIRATION
TO
ELIZA ELVIRA KENYON
WHOSE LOVING INTEREST AND LOFTY EXAMPLE
HAVE BEEN MY STAY FOR
MANY YEARS

A. E. B.

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE
I. A Wild Marigold[ 11]
II. The Feast of the Fat Calf[ 34]
III. The Way to Church[ 48]
IV. The Cider Frolic[ 64]
V. From the Snare of the Fowler[ 81]
VI. For Life or Death[ 98]
VII. Whither Thou Goest[ 114]
VIII. Plot and Counter-Plot[ 131]
IX. Three Partings[ 151]
X. On Shipboard[ 165]
XI. From Ship to Shore[ 177]
XII. General Jacques[ 195]
XIII. A Daughter of the Woods[ 215]
XIV. Pierre, the Engagé[ 229]
XV. Madam, my Mother[ 247]
XVI. One Night in May[ 265]
XVII. Forgiveness[ 282]
XVIII. Papa Louis Tells a Story[ 300]
XIX. The Mark of the Red Feather[ 316]
XX. Mathilde’s Tableaux[ 336]

BECAUSE OF CONSCIENCE

CHAPTER I
A WILD MARIGOLD