Doctor Hathern's daughters

by Mary Jane Holmes

Mrs. MARY J. HOLMES.

All Rights Reserved.

PREFACE.

In a large, old-fashioned Virginia house, shaded with elms and covered with climbing roses, honeysuckle and Virginia creepers, two women sat one June morning, discussing the practicability of writing a story in four parts and calling it “Dr. Hathern’s Daughters.” One of the daughters was to write the opening chapters, and was to be followed at intervals by her friend, whose sobriquet was to be “The Author.” The story has been written and is now given to the public as the joint production of Annie Hathern and

The Author.

CONTENTS.

PART I.—LIFE AT THE ELMS.
		Page
Preface		[7]
Chapter
I.	The Daughters	[9]
II.	The Boy in Grey and the Boy in Blue	[16]
III.	After the War	[31]
IV.	A Shadow Begins to Fall	[45]
V.	Something Does Turn Up	[48]
VI.	The Shadow Deepens	[55]
VII.	The Coming of the Bride	[68]
VIII.	Mrs. Hathern	[76]
IX.	The Upheaval	[88]
X.	A Suspicion	[93]
XI.	Aunt Martha	[98]
XII.	Norah O’Rourke and Julina	[103]
XIII.	Carl	[108]
XIV.	The Picnic	[117]
XV.	Paul	[124]
XVI.	Little Paul	[132]
PART II.—FANNY AND JACK.
I.	After Five Years	[146]
II.	The Fever	[156]
III.	The Engagement	[168]
IV.	The House that Jack Built	[173]
V.	Seeing the World	[180]
VI.	Furnishing the House that Jack Built	[185]
VII.	The 25th of November	[197]
VIII.	At the Plateau	[202]
IX.	The Letter	[210]
X.	The Effect	[229]
PART III.—FAN-AND-ANN AND JACK.
I.	How Lovering Received the News	[239]
II.	At The Elms	[248]
III.	Jack	[262]
IV.	Christmas at The Elms	[275]
V.	On the Celtic	[286]
VI.	On the Road to London	[301]
VII.	At Morley’s	[306]
VIII.	Changes in Lovering	[324]
IX.	Fanny	[338]
X.	Jack and Annie	[353]
XI.	The House of Mourning	[362]
XII.	Going Home	[372]
XIII.	A Law to Herself	[378]
XIV.	Fanny, or Mrs. Errington	[388]
XV.	The Tenant at the Plateau	[403]
PART IV.—KATY AND CARL.
I.	In the Old World	[410]
II.	Madame	[413]
III.	At Homburg	[419]
IV.	At Monte Carlo	[424]
V.	The Concert	[436]
VI.	Julina	[447]
VII.	Carl and Katy	[455]
VIII.	Conclusion	[461]

DR. HATHERN’S DAUGHTERS.

PART I—LIFE AT THE ELMS.

Chapter I—Annie’s Story.
THE DAUGHTERS.