[Frontispiece: Yesterday, for the first time, at that same corner,
he had encountered this fair stranger and her urchin escort.]

THE FLOWER OF THE CHAPDELAINES

BY

GEORGE W. CABLE

WITH FRONTISPIECE BY
F. C. YOHN

NEW YORK
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
1918

COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
Published March, 1918

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Chapter Chapter
[ I] [ XXVI]
[ II] [ XXVII] [The Holy Cross]
[ III] [ XXVIII] [(The Scene)]
[ IV] [The Clock in the Sky][ XXIX] [(The Players)]
[ V] [ XXX] [(The Rising Curtain)]
[ VI] [ XXXI] [(Revolt and Riot)]
[ VII] [ XXXII] [(Freedom and Conflagration)]
[ VIII] [ XXXIII] [(Authority, Order, Peace)]
[ IX] [ XXXIV]
[ X] [The Angel of the Lord][ XXXV]
[ XI] [ XXXVI]
[ XII] [ XXXVII]
[ XIII] [ XXXVIII]
[ XIV] [ XXXIX]
[ XV] [ XL]
[ XVI] [ XLI] [The Lost Fortune]
[ XVII] [ XLII] [Mélanie]
[ XVIII] [ XLIII]
[ XIX] [ XLIV]
[ XX] [The Chapdelaines][ XLV]
[ XXI] [ XLVI]
[ XXII] [ XLVII]
[ XXIII] [ XLVIII]
[ XXIV] [T. Chapdelaine & Son][ XLIX]
[ XXV] [ L]