Copyright, 1920,

BY

FLORENCE L. BARCLAY

To

CATHERINE

Lord Tennyson’s poem, “Crossing the Bar,” is printed by kind permission of Messrs. Macmillan & Co.

CONTENTS

SCENE PAGE
I.Glass with Care[15]
II.The Unexpected Welcome[35]
III.The Expected Guest[49]
IV.The Prison Bars Dissolve[59]
V.“I Have Waited so Long!”[65]
VI.“Sunset and Evening Star”[73]
VII.“And after That—the Dark”[79]
VIII.The Dawn Breaks[133]
IX.The Watcher[149]
X.“When That which Drew from out the Boundless Deep, Turns again Home”[153]
XI.“My Life for His!”[165]
XII.The Deep Well[175]
XIII.“Nevertheless——”[193]
XIV.“No Sadness of Farewell”[203]
XV.“The Secrets of Our Hearts”[211]
XVI.“Who Was He?”[219]
XVII.In the Pine Wood[223]
XVIII.The Home She Planned[233]
XIX.The Great Chance[239]
XX.“Coming!”[243]

SCENE I
GLASS WITH CARE

A limitless expanse of opal sea, calm and unruffled, reflecting the crimson and gold of the sky, as the sun went down behind pine woods and moors.