To
MR. GEORGE BOYD MACMILLAN
ALLOA, SCOTLAND
IN RECOGNITION OF
A LONG AND STIMULATING FRIENDSHIP

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
IThe House in the Hollow[1]
IIA Watch in the Night[8]
IIIA Hop out of Kin[19]
IVA Family Conclave[33]
VDiamond Cut Diamond[44]
VINew Moon[52]
VIIThe Book of Yesterday[63]
VIIITrial by Fire[79]
IXA Special Providence[91]
XGrowing Pains[105]
XIIlse[113]
XIIThe Tansy Patch[122]
XIIIA Daughter of Eve[137]
XIVFancy Fed[146]
XVVarious Tragedies[153]
XVICheck for Miss Brownell[165]
XVIILiving Epistles[179]
XVIIIFather Cassidy[193]
XIXFriends Again[211]
XXBy Aërial Post[216]
XXI“Romantic but not Comfortable”[227]
XXIIWyther Grange[238]
XXIIIDeals with Ghosts[247]
XXIVA Different Kind of Happiness[257]
XXV“She Couldn’t Have Done It”[264]
XXVIOn the Bay Shore[270]
XXVIIThe Vow of Emily[282]
XXVIIIA Weaver of Dreams[302]
XXIXSacrilege[315]
XXXWhen the Curtain Lifted[326]
XXXIEmily’s Great Moment[340]

EMILY OF NEW MOON

CHAPTER I
The House in the Hollow

THE house in the hollow was “a mile from anywhere”—so Maywood people said. It was situated in a grassy little dale, looking as if it had never been built like other houses but had grown up there like a big, brown mushroom. It was reached by a long, green lane and almost hidden from view by an encircling growth of young birches. No other house could be seen from it although the village was just over the hill. Ellen Greene said it was the lonesomest place in the world and vowed that she wouldn’t stay there a day if it wasn’t that she pitied the child.

Emily didn’t know she was being pitied and didn’t know what lonesomeness meant. She had plenty of company. There was Father—and Mike—and Saucy Sal. The Wind Woman was always around; and there were the trees—Adam-and-Eve, and the Rooster Pine, and all the friendly lady-birches.

And there was “the flash,” too. She never knew when it might come, and the possibility of it kept her a-thrill and expectant.