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Title: The End of the Rainbow

Author: Marian Keith

Release Date: March 8, 2009 [EBook #28276]

Language: English

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THE END OF THE RAINBOW

BY

MARIAN KEITH

_Author of "'Lisbeth of the Dale,"
"Treasure Valley," "Duncan Polite," etc._

McCLELLAND AND STEWART

PUBLISHERS : : TORONTO

Copyright, 1913

BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE GLEAM
II. "THE GREATEST OF THE THREE"
III. LIFE'S YOUNG MARINER
IV. SIDE LIGHTS
V. FOLLOWING THE GLEAM
VI. LAUNCHING HIS VESSEL
VII. "MOVING TO MELODY"
VIII. "FLOATED THE GLEAM"
IX. "DEAF TO THE MELODY"
X. "THE LIGHT RETREATED"
XI. "THE LANDSKIP DARKEN'D"
XII. "THE MELODY DEADEN'D"
XIII. "THE MASTER WHISPERED"
XIV. "FOLLOW THE GLEAM"

THE END OF THE RAINBOW

CHAPTER I

THE GLEAM

All afternoon the little town had lain dozing under the lullaby of a
June rain. It was not so much a rain as a gentle dewy mist, touching
the lawns and gardens and the maple trees that lined each street into
more vivid green, and laying a thick moist carpet over the dust of the
highways. And the little town, ringed by forest and lake, and canopied
by maple boughs, had lain there enjoying it, now blinking half-awake in
the brief glimpses of sunlight, now curling up again and going to sleep.

In the late afternoon the silent tournament between sunshine and shadow
resulted in a conquest for the sun. His victorious lances swept the
enemy from the clean blue skies; they glanced over the lake, lodged in
every treetop, and glittered from every church spire. The little town
began to stir. The yellow dogs, that had slept all afternoon on the
shop steps, roused themselves and resumed their fight in the middle of
Main Street. Now and then a clerk ran across to a rival firm to get
change for a customer. A few belated shoppers hurried homeward. A
farmer's double-buggy backed out of the hotel yard with a scra