GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS ———— NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT 1917
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY

This Book
Is Written in Memory of My Husband
Eager in Service, Patient in Illness
Unfaltering in Death, and
Is Dedicated to
The St. Louis Presbytery
To Which I Owe a Debt of Interest
Of Sympathy and of Unfailing Friendship
I Can Ever Hope to Pay

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
I [THE BEGINNING]
II [MANSERS]
III [A BABY IN BUSINESS]
IV [A WOMAN IN THE CHURCH]
V [A MINISTER'S SON]
VI [THE HEAVY YOKE]
VII [THE FIRST STEP]
VIII [REACTION]
IX [UPHEAVAL]
X [WHERE HEALTH BEGINS]
XI [THE OLD TEACHER]
XII [THE LAND O' LUNGERS]
XIII [OLD HOPES AND NEW]
XIV [NEPTUNE'S SECOND DAUGHTER]
XV [THE SECOND STEP]
XVI [DEPARTED SPIRITS]
XVII [RUBBING ELBOWS]
XVIII [QUIESCENT]
XIX [RE-CREATION]
XX [LITERARY MATERIAL]
XXI [ADVENTURING]
XXII [HARBORAGE]
XXIII [THE SUNNY SLOPE]
XXIV [THE END]

ILLUSTRATIONS

[ "A minister's wife! You look more
like a little girl's baby doll." . . . . . . Frontispiece ]

[ "Silly old goose," she murmured. ]

[ Carol, with an inarticulate sob,
gathered her baby in her arms. ]

[ "I beg your pardon," she said, sweetly,
unsmilingly, "I did not mean to be rude." ]