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Title: Treasure Valley

Author: Marian Keith

Release Date: June 3, 2009 [EBook #29023]

Language: English

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TREASURE VALLEY

BY

MARIAN KEITH

_Author of "Duncan Polite," "The Silver Maple," etc,_

JENNINGS & GRAHAM

CINCINNATI, CHICAGO, KANSAS CITY,

SAN FRANCISCO

1909

Copyright, 1908, by

GEORGE H. DORAN

J. F. TAPLEY CO.

New York

CONTENTS

CHAPTER
TOC
I. THE HERMIT THRUSH SINGS
II. AN ADVENTUROUS EXPEDITION
III. HIS FIRST PATIENT
IV. THE ORPHAN ARRIVES
V. THE MILKSTAND CLUB
VI. A FAMOUS PRACTITIONER
VII. THE TRAINING OF THE ORPHANS
VIII. A STRANGE COMRADESHIP
IX. THE SONG IN THE NIGHT
X. THE SECRET OF THE BLUE SILK GOWN
XI. THE COMING OF ROSALIE
XII. A RUSH FOR THE GOAL
XIII. THE TREASURE-BOOK
XIV. THE HERALD OF SPRING
XV. THE ELOPEMENT
XVI. THE CALL OF THE BANSHEE
XVII. THE DAWN
XVIII. THE END OF THE WAITING
XIX. THE HERMIT SINGS AGAIN
ETOC

TREASURE VALLEY

CHAPTER I

THE HERMIT THRUSH SINGS

Then twilight falls with the touch
Of a hand that soothes and stills,
And a swamp-robin sings into light
The lone white star of the hills.

Alone in the dusk he sings,
And the joy of another day
Is folded in peace and borne
On the drift of years away.
--BLISS CARMAN.

Other years, by the time the mid-June days were come, the little brook
that sang through John McIntyre's pasture-field had shrunk to a mere
jeweled thread of golden pools and silver shallows, with here and there
only the bleached pebbles to mark its course. But this summer was of a
new and wonderful variety. Just two or three brilliant, hot days, and
then, as regular as the sun, up from the ocean's rim would rise
dazzling cloud-mountains, piling themselves up and up into glorious
towers and domes and battlements; and when the earth had begun to droop
beneath the sun's blaze, with a great thunder signal they w