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Title: Janet of the Dunes

Author: Harriet T. Comstock

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JANET OF THE DUNES

by

HARRIET T. COMSTOCK

Author of
Joyce of the North Woods,
A Son of the Hills, Etc.

[Illustration: JANET. _Frontispiece_]

Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers :: :: New York

Copyright, 1907, By Little, Brown, and Company.
All rights reserved

LOVINGLY
I Dedicate this Book
TO
CARRIE LOUISE SMITH.

HER FRIENDSHIP WAS, AND ALWAYS WILL BE, A LIGHT TO
ME UPON MY WAY. THE CHART SHE SAILED BY
WILL GUIDE MY COURSE AND BRING ME, I
HOPE, AT LAST, TO THE HARBOR
WHERE SHE HAS GONE.

HARRIET T. COMSTOCK.
FLATBUSH, BROOKLYN, N.Y.
June 15, 1907.

PREFACE

In this story of the dunes, the Hills and the Light, I have not
attempted any character drawing, although on the easterly shore of Long
Island there are many people who have retained, together with the plain
old English names which they brought with them by way of Connecticut and
Rhode Island, a simplicity and sturdiness of character not to be found
elsewhere, I believe, so near the great cosmopolis, and which is worthy
a place in song and story.

It has been my good fortune to mingle for many summers with these kindly
folk, and particularly with a little group of gentle, rather bashful and
silent men forming a crew, with their captain, of one of the United
States Life Saving Stations.

It is my hope that this story, if it does nothing else, will in some
small measure enhance the not-too-strong interest in which t