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"Urging her to visit them as often as possible, Mr. Young withdrew." ([Chapter IX])Frontispiece

MACARIA


BY
AUGUSTA J. EVANS WILSON
AUTHOR OF
"BEULAH," "ST. ELMO," "INFELICE,"
ETC., ETC.
WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED
LONDON AND MELBOURNE
1921


CONTENTS

CHAP. PAGE
I[Russell Aubrey]5
II[Irene's Friendship]13
III[The Missing Watch]19
IV[Electra's Discovery]28
V[Irene is Sent Away]35
VI[Master and Pupil]42
VII[New Friends]49
VIII[A Discovery]54
IX[An Orphan's Protectors]66
X[Irene's Cousin]70
XI[Anxiety]77
XII[A Sacrifice]83
XIII[Warnings]88
XIV[The Close of the Vigil]94
XV[At Home Again]99
XVI[The Loan Repaid]105
XVII[Irene Meets Russell]111
XVIII[A Refusal]117
XIX[Russell Visits Electra]124
XX[A Candidate for the Legislature]131
XXI[The Minister's Love]139
XXII["Cousinly—No More"]143
XXIII[The Fever]152
XXIV[Irene's Illness]162
XXV[Reconciled]171
XXVI[Civil War]182
XXVII[Hospital Stores]187
XXVIII[A Confession]194
XXIX[A Dying Message]202
XXX[The Blockade Runner]211
XXXI[Results of Secession]221
XXXII[Womanly Usefulness]227
XXXIII[In the Hospital]233
XXXIV[Mortally Wounded]240
XXXV["The Sanctified Devotion and Full Work"]252