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Title: Kildares of Storm

Author: Eleanor Mercein Kelly

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KILDARES OF STORM

by

ELEANOR MERCEIN KELLY

With Frontispiece by Alonzo Kimball

New York
The Century Co.
1916

Copyright, 1916, by
The Century Co.

Published, October, 1916

TO AN UNFORGOTTEN MOTHER
Who moulded for others than her daughter
the standard of great womanhood

[Illustration: But for once Jacqueline of the eager lips turned her
cheek, so that her mother's kiss should not disturb the memory of
certain others]

KILDARES OF STORM

CHAPTER I

Along a pleasant Kentucky road that followed nature rather than art in
its curves and meanderings, straying beside a brook awhile before it
decided to cross, lingering in cool, leafy hollows, climbing a sudden
little hill to take a look out over the rolling countryside--along this
road a single-footing mare went steadily, carrying a woman who rode
cross-saddle, with a large china vase tucked under one arm.

People in an approaching automobile stopped talking to stare at her. She
returned their gaze calmly, while the startled mare made some effort to
climb a tree, thought better of it, and sidled by w