HICH THE STREAM JOINS WITH OTHERS
AND PLUNGES DOWN A CLIFF

IX. Margarita Meets the Enemy and He is Hers 81

X. Fate Spreads an Island Feast 87

XI. Our Parson Proves Capable 94

XII. I Leave Eden 105

PART IV

IN WHICH THE STREAM WINDS THROUGH A
SULLEN MARSH AND BECOMES A BROOK

XIII. Straws that Showed the Wind 111

XIV. The Island Cottage 118

XV. Fate Plays Me in the Shallows 130

XVI. Margarita Comes to Town 141

PART V

IN WHICH THE BROOK BECOMES A RIVER AND
FLOWS BY GREAT CITIES

XVII. Our Pearl Bathes in Seine Water 149

XVIII. My Pearl of Too Great Price 157

XIX. Fate Lands Me on the Rocks 164

PART VI

IN WHICH YOU ARE SHOWN THE RIVER'S VERY
SOURCES, FAR UNDERGROUND

XX. A Garden Glimpse of Eden 181

XXI. Hester Prynne's Secret 186

XXII. Fate Laughs and Baits Her Hook 196

PART VII

IN WHICH THE RIVER LEAPS A SUDDEN CLIFF
AND BECOMES A CATARACT

XXIII. Fate Spreads Her Net 213

XXIV. Our Second Summer in Eden 221

XXV. The Island Tomb 231

XXVI. A Handful of Memories 235

PART VIII

IN WHICH THE RIVER RUSHES INTO PERILOUS
RAPIDS

XXVII. We Bring Our Pearl to Market 247

XXVIII. Arabian Nights in England 257

XXIX. Fate Grips Her Landing Net 273

PART IX

IN WHICH THE RIVER FINDS THE SEA

XXX. A Terror in the Snow 279

XXXI. Fate Empties Her Creel 289

XXXII. The Sunset End 294

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ILLUSTRATIONS

They Crooned Together There, the Woman, the Child
and the Birds _Frontispiece_

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Scooped Hundreds--Perhaps Thousands--Out of a Chest
to Flee at Dawn