s inclined to pass the
matter off with a: "There, there! It's all over now. Just be good and
forget it!" while she, in the depths of her heart, retains a little bit
of wistfulness, a little wounded feeling, which causes her to say to
herself: "Thank God our home was not broken up, but--I wish that he
could be a little more considerate, sometimes, in view of all that I
have suffered."

For my part, I am the humble but devoted friend of the family. Having
known him first, having been from boyhood his companion, I may perhaps
have sympathized with him in the beginning. But since I have come to
know her, too, that is no longer so. And I do think I know her--proud,
sensitive, high-strung, generous, captivating beauty that she is!
Moreover, after the fashion of many another "friend of the family," I
have fallen in love with her. Loving her from afar, I send her as a
nosegay these chapters gathered in her own gardens. If some of the
flowers are of a kind for which she does not care, if some have thorns,
even if some are only weeds, I pray her to remember that from what was
growing in her gardens I was forced to make my choice, and to believe
that, whatever the defects of my bouquet, it is meant to be a bunch of
roses.

J.S.
_October 1, 1917._

The Author makes his grateful acknowledgments to the old friends
and the new ones who assisted him upon this journey. And once more
he desires to express his gratitude to the friend and
fellow-traveler whose illustrations are far from being his only
contribution to this volume.

--J.S.
New York, October, 1917.

CONTENTS

THE BORDERLAND

CHAPTER PAGE

I ON JOURNEYS THROUGH THE STATES 3

II A BALTIMORE EVENING 13

III WHERE THE CLIMATES MEET 27

IV TRIUMPHANT DEFEAT 38

V TERRAPIN AND THINGS 44

VI DOUGHOREGAN MANOR AND THE CARROLLS 53

VII A RARE OLD TOWN 69

VIII WE MEET THE HAMPTON GHOST 80

IX ARE WE STANDARDIZED? 89

X HARPER'S FERRY AND JOHN BROWN