"'I DON'T WANT TO BE JUST AN OLD MAID SISTER IN SOMEBODY ELSE'S HOME.'" ([See page 34].)


Copyright, 1912,
By L. C. Page & Company.
(INCORPORATED)
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Entered at Stationers' Hall, London
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All rights reserved
First Impression, October, 1912
THE COLONIAL PRESS
C. H. SIMONDS & CO., BOSTON, U. S. A.


TO
MISS FANNY CRAIG
THE "MISS ALLISON" OF THESE STORIES,
WHOSE "ROAD OF THE LOVING HEART" RUNS WIDE AND FAR
THROUGH ALL THIS HAPPY VALLEY


CONTENTS

PART I
CHAPTERPAGE
I.A Seeker of New Trails[1]
II.Back at Lone-Rock[24]
III.A New Friend[51]
IV.The Witch with a Wand[68]
V.P Stands for Pink[91]
VI.Told in Letters[111]
VII.A Desert of Waiting[126]
VIII.A Great Sorrow[144]

PART II
I.Betty's Wedding[161]
II.Towards the Canaan of Her Desire [183]
III.The Supreme Call[204]
IV."Pink" or Diamond Row[227]
V.Mary and the "Big Opportunity"[244]
VI.Phil Walks In[266]
VII.Her Great Renunciation[278]
VIII.How It All Ended[300]