CONTENTS.
| Chapter | Page | |
| I. | —The Doctor | [5] |
| II. | —A Young Stranger | [10] |
| III. | —His Wife | [17] |
| IV. | —Convalescence and Acquaintance | [22] |
| V. | —Hard Questions | [29] |
| VI. | —Nesting | [34] |
| VII. | —Disappearance | [45] |
| VIII. | —A Question of Book-keeping | [52] |
| IX. | —When the Wind Blows | [61] |
| X. | —Gentles and Commons | [66] |
| XI. | —A Pantomime | [73] |
| XII. | —“She's all the World” | [81] |
| XIII. | —The Bough Breaks | [87] |
| XIV. | —Hard Speeches and High Temper | [94] |
| XV. | —The Cradle Falls | [99] |
| XVI. | —Many Waters | [107] |
| XVII. | —Raphael Ristofalo | [118] |
| XVIII. | —How He Did It | [127] |
| XIX. | —Another Patient | [134] |
| XX. | —Alice | [138] |
| XXI. | —The Sun at Midnight | [142] |
| XXII. | —Borrower Turned Lender | [160] |
| XXIII. | —Wear and Tear | [169] |
| XIV. | —Brought to Bay | [177] |
| XV. | —The Doctor Dines Out | [184] |
| XVI. | —The Trough of the Sea | [194] |
| XVII. | —Out of the Frying-Pan | [207] |
| XXVIII. | —“Oh, where is my Love?” | [215] |
| XXIX. | —Release.—Narcisse | [224] |
| XXX. | —Lighting Ship | [233] |
| XXXI. | —At Last | [243] |
| XXXII. | —A Rising Star | [248] |
| XXXIII. | —Bees, Wasps, and Butterflies | [258] |
| XXXIV. | —Toward the Zenith | [262] |
| XXXV. | —To Sigh, yet Feel no Pain | [268] |
| XXXVI. | —What Name? | [275] |
| XXXVII. | —Pestilence | [280] |
| XXXVIII. | —“I must be Cruel only to be Kind” | [286] |
| XXXIX. | —“Pettent Prate” | [294] |
| XL. | —Sweet Bells Jangled | [300] |
| XLI. | —Mirage | [310] |
| XLII. | —Ristofalo and the Rector | [317] |
| XLIII. | —Shall she Come or Stay? | [324] |
| XLIV. | —What would you Do? | [329] |
| XLV. | —Narcisse with News | [335] |
| XLVI. | —A Prison Memento | [340] |
| XLVII. | —Now I Lay Me— | [345] |
| XLVIII. | —Rise up, my Love, my Fair One! | [351] |
| XLIX. | —A Bundle of Hopes | [357] |
| L. | —Fall In! | [366] |
| LI. | —Blue Bonnets over the Border | [372] |
| LII. | —A Pass through the Lines | [378] |
| LIII. | —Try Again | [384] |
| LIV. | —“Who Goes There?” | [394] |
| LV. | —Dixie | [412] |
| LVI. | —Fire and Sword | [425] |
| LVII. | —Almost in Sight | [435] |
| LVIII. | —A Golden Sunset | [445] |
| LIX. | —Afterglow | [454] |
| LX. | —“Yet shall he live” | [465] |
| LXI. | —Peace | [470] |
DR. SEVIER.
CHAPTER I.
THE DOCTOR.