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Title: In the High Valley
Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series

Author: Susan Coolidge

Release Date: May 8, 2009 [EBook #28724]

Language: English

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IN THE HIGH VALLEY.

[Illustration: "'I suppose we shall never see the ocean from where we
are to live,' said Imogen."--PAGE 15.]

IN THE HIGH VALLEY.

BEING

THE FIFTH AND LAST VOLUME

OF

_THE KATY DID SERIES_.

BY

SUSAN COOLIDGE,

AUTHOR OF

"THE NEW YEAR'S BARGAIN," "WHAT KATY DID," "WHAT KATY DID AT
SCHOOL," "WHAT KATY DID NEXT," "MISCHIEF'S THANKSGIVING,"
"CROSS PATCH," "A GUERNSEY LILY," "NINE LITTLE GOSLINGS,"
"A LITTLE COUNTRY GIRL," "A ROUND DOZEN," "CLOVER,"
"EYEBRIGHT," "JUST SIXTEEN," ETC.

BOSTON:
ROBERTS BROTHERS.
1896.

_Copyright_, _1891_,
BY ROBERTS BROTHERS.

=University Press:=
JOHN WILSON AND SON, CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. ALONG THE NORTH DEVON COAST 7

II. MISS OPDYKE FROM NEW YORK 40

III. THE LAST OF DEVON AND THE FIRST OF AMERICA 65

IV. IN THE HIGH VALLEY 93

V. ARRIVAL 127

VI. UNEXPECTED 149

VII. THORNS AND ROSES 174

VIII. UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER 204

IX. THE ECHOES IN THE EAST CANYON 235

X. A DOUBLE KNOT 267

IN THE HIGH VALLEY.

CHAPTER I.

ALONG THE NORTH DEVON COAST.

IT was a morning of late May, and the sunshi