LONDON

GEORGE BELL AND SONS

1903

TO
THE CITIZENS
OF
BEAUTIFUL BANGOR
THIS STORY IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR

CONTENTS.

CHAPTERPAGE
I.The Elect Lady and Her Death-book[11]
II.An Unexpected Daughter-in-law[24]
III.To Him the World Was Gay[34]
IV.A Favour Solicited[51]
V.A Pastoral Visit[62]
VI.Stern Her Face and Masculine Her Stride[72]
VII.A Drive with a Strange Guide[81]
VIII.Of Mixed Blood[98]
IX.Tell Me Your Secrets[111]
X.A Reform in the Bill of Fare[122]
XI.In the Midst of Life We Are in Death[136]
XII.It Is All True[148]
XIII.A Dinner-party[162]
XIV.Unquiet Hearts[178]
XV.A Family Cemented by Love[191]
XVI.A Partial Surrender[200]
XVII.Captain White Chooses a Monument[217]
XVIII.A Step in Advance[230]
XIX.The Church of the United Brethren Loses Its Pastor[243]
XX.Burglars at French Cross[254]
XXI.Miss Gastonguay Interviews Her Prisoner[266]
XXII.Criminal Records[280]
XXIII.When a Man's Happy[293]
XXIV.An Invitation to a Picnic[307]
XXV.In the French Cross Wood[316]
XXVI.The Picnic and the Old Prison Well[322]
XXVII.H. Robinson and His Revelation[336]
XXVIII.Captain White's Ball Play[350]
XXIX.News of the Wanderer[363]
XXX.The Return of the Wanderer[369]
XXXI.H. Robinson Again[378]
XXXII.A Branch Cut Off[390]
XXXIII.The Puritans Have Triumphed![406]
XXXIV.The Son of the Morning[418]

DEFICIENT SAINTS.

CHAPTER I.

THE ELECT LADY AND HER DEATH-BOOK.