ILLUSTRATED
Printed and Bound for the New Amsterdam Book
Company, New York City, Anno Domini Mcmi
Copyright, 1901
by
New Amsterdam Book Company
Milly: At Love's Extremes
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I. [MOUNTAIN DEW]
CHAPTER II. [MILLY]
CHAPTER III. [MR. HAWKINS NOBLE]
CHAPTER IV. [WHITE PLAYS "SEVING UP"]
CHAPTER V. [SOME LIGHT TALK]
CHAPTER VI. [AT THE GATE]
CHAPTER VII. [AN OLD PLANTATION HOUSE]
CHAPTER VIII. [WITH DOG AND GUN]
CHAPTER IX. [LUNCHEON AL FRESCO]
CHAPTER X. [MILLY INQUIRES]
CHAPTER XI. [DALLYING]
CHAPTER XII. [A BIT OF LOVE MAKING]
CHAPTER XIII. [AT THE RUIN]
CHAPTER XIV. [A WHISPER IN THE CABIN]
CHAPTER XV. [A DISCLOSURE]
CHAPTER XVI. [CONVALESCENT]
CHAPTER XVII. [DREAMS AND PLANS]
CHAPTER XVIII. [REALITIES]
CHAPTER XIX. [WHITHER]
CHAPTER XX. [AFTER ALL]
MILLY:
AT LOVE'S EXTREMES
CHAPTER I.
MOUNTAIN DEW.
A man stood on the jutting shoulder of a mountain overlooking a long, narrow valley, whose scattering houses and irregular farm-plats, seen through the clear air of that high region, appeared scarcely a gun-shot distant, when in fact they were miles away. It was early morning; the sun had barely cleared the highest peaks in the east, and the landscape, albeit a mid-winter one, was wonderfully rich in colors. On the oak trees the leaves still clung in heavy brown, green and russet masses; the hickory forests, though leafless, made bits of tender gray along the lower valley-slopes, whilst high up toward the mountain tops, the billowy wilderness of pines, cedars and chestnut trees added their variegated patch-work that gradually rose and shaded off into the blue of distance. In some places where storms, or the needs of man, had removed the oak woods, a dense, frondous mass of young pines had leaped up with a greenness full of a soft yellow glow. The sunshine and the wind of the South were flowing over this scene, and there were fragrant odors and balsamic pungency in every wave.