Marshall Saunders

PUBLISHERS' NOTE.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. 'TIS THE UNEXPECTED THAT OCCURS.

CHAPTER II. SCHOOLMA'AM AND WIFE, BUT NEVER A MOTHER.

CHAPTER III. SHE WHO FIGHTS AND RUNS AWAY.

CHAPTER IV. RUBICON MEADOWS ARE LEFT BEHIND.

CHAPTER V. FELLOW SHIPS ON THE SEA OF LIFE.

CHAPTER VI. LET US MAKE A NEW BEGINNING.

CHAPTER VII. WE ARE PROGRESSING.

CHAPTER VIII. BEWARE THE FURY OF A PATIENT MAID.

CHAPTER IX. SINCE YOU REFUSE, I THREATEN.

CHAPTER X. A GIRL'S WILL IS THE WIND'S WILL.

CHAPTER XI. A REBUFF FOR ADONIS.

CHAPTER XII. AN UNSATISFACTORY INTERVIEW.

CHAPTER XIII. A LITTLE IDLE WORD.

CHAPTER XIV. WHAT ARE YOUR WISHES?

CHAPTER XV. WHAT IS LOVE?

CHAPTER XVI. PERNICIOUS WORDS IMPREGNED WITH REASON.

CHAPTER XVII. "MUCH HAVE I BORNE SINCE DAWN OF MORN."

CHAPTER XVIII. DISTRESS AND SWEET SUBMISSION.

CHAPTER XIX. IN PLEASANT SUMMER WEATHER.

CHAPTER XX. THE SECRET OF HER LIFE.

CHAPTER XXI. "ALONE ON A WIDE, WIDE SEA."

CHAPTER XXII. I LOVE YOU.

A Love Story

BY

MARSHALL SAUNDERS

AUTHOR OF
“BEAUTIFUL JOE,” “ROSE À CHARLITTE,”
“DEFICIENT SAINTS,” ETC.

“Now if you love the southern sea

And pleasant summer weather;

Come, let us mount this gallant ship,

And sail away together.”

New York
International Association of Newspapers and Authors
1901

Copyright, 1899
By L. C. Page and Company
(INCORPORATED)

George M. Hill Company
Printers and Binders
Chicago, Ill.

I DEDICATE
THIS MY FIRST STORY
TO MY MOST INDULGENT CRITIC,
THE ONE WHO WILL HAVE MOST PATIENCE WITH ITS
IMPERFECTIONS,—MY BELOVED MOTHER,
Maria Kisborough Freeman Saunders
OF HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA.