By the Light of the Soul
A Novel
By
Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Author of
"The Debtor" "The Portion of Labor"
"Jerome" "A New England Nun"
Etc. etc.
Illustrations by
Harold M. Brett
New York and London
Harper & Brothers Publishers
1907
Copyright, 1906, by Harper & Brothers.
All rights reserved.
Published January, 1907.
To Harriet and Carolyn Alden
Chapter I
Maria Edgham, who was a very young girl, sat in the church vestry beside a window during the weekly prayer-meeting.