ORIS TAKES A JOURNEY 180

XIII THE HOUSE IN THE CEDARS 196

XIV LAURIE CHECKS A REVELATION 216

XV MR. SHAW DECIDES TO TALK 240

XVI BURKE MAKES A PROMISE 258

XVII LAURIE MAKES A CONFESSION 270

XVIII A LITTLE LOOK FORWARD 285

XIX "WHAT ABOUT LAURIE?" 296

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"Well, Princess," he said at last, still trying to
speak lightly _Frontispiece_

FACING
PAGE

"You see, what we were going to do isn't done
much nowadays" 64

"There is someone outside that door!" she
whispered 116

"What you been doin' to yerself?" he gasped 264

THE GIRL
IN THE MIRROR

THE GIRL IN THE MIRROR

CHAPTER I

BARBARA'S WEDDING

The little city of Devondale, Ohio, had shaken off for one night at
least the air of aristocratic calm that normally distinguished it from
the busy mill towns on its right and left. Elm Avenue, its leading
residence street, usually presented at this hour only an effect of
watchful trees, dark shrubbery, shaded lamps, and remote domestic peace.
Now, however, it had blossomed into a brilliant thoroughfare, full of
light, color, and movement, on all of which the December stars winked
down as if in intimate understanding.

Automobiles poured through the wide gates of its various homes and
joined a ceaseless procession of vehicles. Pedestrians, representing
every class of the city's social life, jostled one another on the
sidewalks as they hurried onward, following this vanguard. Overwrought
policemen barked instructions at chauffeurs and sternly reprimanded
daring souls who attempted to move in a direction opposite to that the
crowd was following. For the time, indeed, there seemed to be but one
destination which a self-respecting citizen of Devondale might properly
have in mind; and already many of the elect had reached this objective
and had comfortably passed through its wide doors, down its aisles, and
into its cushioned pews.

The Episcopal chur