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Title: Stubble

Author: George Looms

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Language: English

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STUBBLE

by

GEORGE LOOMS

Garden City New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1922

Copyright, 1922, by
Doubleday, Page & Company

All Rights Reserved, Including That of Translation
into Foreign Languages, Including the Scandinavian

Printed in the United States
at
The Country Life Press, Garden City, N. Y.

First Edition

TO

MIS' KATIE

AND HER COURAGE

CONTENTS

PART I
PAGE
MARY LOUISE 1

PART II

MYRTLE 143

PART III

BLOOMFIELD 249

PART I

MARY LOUISE

STUBBLE

CHAPTER I

The front gate screaked, a slow, timid, almost furtive sort of screak,
and then banged suddenly shut as though it despaired of further
concealment. Mary Louise gathered her sewing to her, rose to her feet,
and looked out. It was raining. Through the glass upper half of the
door that opened from the sitting room upon the side porch she could
see the swelling tendrils of the vines that crawled about the trellis,
heavy and beady with the gathering moisture. It was one of those cold,
drizzly, early April rains that d