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Title: In Orchard Glen

Author: Marian Keith

Release Date: March 1, 2009 [EBook #28235]

Language: English

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IN ORCHARD GLEN

BY

MARIAN KEITH

AUTHOR OF "TREASURE VALLEY," "THE SILVER MAPLE," ETC.

McCLELLAND AND STEWART

PUBLISHERS : : TORONTO

_Copyright, 1918,_

_By George H. Doran Company_

_Printed in the United States of America_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I APPLE-BLOSSOM DAYS
II AWAY FROM ORCHARD GLEN
III "WHOSOEVER WILL LOSE HIS LIFE"
IV CRAIG-ELLACHIE
V "HEY! JOHNNIE COPE"
VI ST. VALENTINE'S PRANK
VII OFF WITH THE OLD LOVE
VIII THE WAR DRUM
IX THE DREAM KNIGHT
X CALLED TO THE COLORS
XI "LAST LEAVE"
XII "ALL THE BLUE BONNETS ARE OVER THE BORDER!"
XIII "THE PLIGHTED RING"
XIV "OVER THE TOP"
XV THE GARDEN BLOOMS AGAIN
XVI THE HILLS ABOVE ORCHARD GLEN

IN ORCHARD GLEN

CHAPTER I

APPLE-BLOSSOM DAYS

It was on Christina Lindsay's nineteenth birthday that she made the
second Great Discovery about herself. The first one had been made when
she was only eleven, and like the second it had proved an unpleasant
surprise.

It was midsummer holidays, that time when she was only eleven, and
raspberry time too, and Christina and her brother Sandy were picking
berries in the "Slash," a wild bit of semi-woodland away up on the
hills that divided her home farm from the land of the Grant Sisters.
The Grant Girls--they were all three over fifty but everybody rightly
called them girls,--the Grant Girls were there picking berries too,
with Mrs. Johnnie Dunn, and several other friends; and there were many
more groups scattered here and there through the green tangle of bushes
and saplings. For a berry-patch was community property, and when the
crop was plentiful, as it was this year, a berry-picking became a
pleasant social function, where one met friends from near and far, and
picnicked with them under the trees.

Christina was working with furious spe