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Title: Flood Tide

Author: Sara Ware Bassett

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FLOOD TIDE

by

SARA WARE BASSETT

Author of

"The Harbor Road," "The Wall Between," "Taming of Zenas Henry,"
etc.

With Frontispiece by M. L. Greer

[Frontispiece: "Delight's kinder bowled over by surprise, Tiny," Willie
explained gently.]

A. L. Burt Company
Publishers -------- New York
Published by arrangement with Little, Brown and Company
Copyright, 1921,
By Sara Ware Bassett.
All rights reserved
Published March, 1921

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE WEAVER AND HIS FANCIES
II. WILLIE HAS AN IDEE
III. A NEW ARRIVAL
IV. THE GREEN-EYED MONSTER ENTERS
V. AN APPARITION
VI. MARRYING AND GIVING IN MARRIAGE
VII. A SECOND SPIRIT APPEARS
VIII. SHADOWS
IX. A WIDENING OF THE BREACH
X. A CONSPIRACY
XI. THE GALBRAITH HOUSEHOLD
XII. ROBERT MORTON MAKES A RESOLVE
XIII. A NEWCOMER ENTERS
XIV. THE SPENCES ENTER SOCIETY
XV. A REVELATION
XVI. ANOTHER BLOW DESCENDS
XVII. A GRIM HAND INTERVENES
XVIII. THE PROGRESS OF ANOTHER ROMANCE
XIX. WILLIE AS PILOT
XX. ONE MORE OF WILLIE'S SHIPS REACHES PORT
XXI. SURPRISES
XXII. DELIGHT MAKES HER DECISION
XXIII. FAME COMES TO THE DREAMER OF DREAMS

FLOOD TIDE

CHAPTER I

THE WEAVER AND HIS FANCIES

Willie Spence was a trial. Not that his personality rasped society at
large. On the contrary his neighbors cherished toward the little old
man, with his short-sighted blue eyes and his appealing smile, an
affection peculiarly tender; and if they sometimes wer