Burnett-Smith)

Author of
'Aldersyde,' 'Across Her Path,' 'The Gates of Eden,' 'The Ayres of
Studleigh,' 'Who Shall Serve?'

'_The rank is but the guinea stamp,
The man's the gowd for a that._'

Edinburgh and London
Oliphant Anderson & Ferrier
1892

Books By Annie S. Swan.

6s.

_Sheila._ With Frontispiece.
_Maitland of Laurieston._

5s.

_The Gates of Eden._ With Portrait of the Authoress.
_Briar and Palm._ With Six Chalk Drawings.
_St. Veda's._ With Frontispiece by Robert M'Gregor.
_The Guinea Stamp. A Tale of Modern Glasgow._

3s. 6d.

_Aldersyde._ With Six Original Illustrations by Tom Scott.
_Carlowrie._ With Six Original Illustrations by Tom Scott.
_Doris Cheyne._ With Illustrations of the English Lake District.
_Who Shall Serve? A Story for the Times._

2s. 6d.

_Aldersyde._
_Carlowrie._
_Hazell & Sons._ Illustrated.
_A Divided House._ Illustrated.
_Ursula Vivian._ Illustrated.
_The Ayres of Studleigh._ Illustrated.

2s. In Paper Boards.

_Aldersyde._
_Carlowrie._
_The Ayres of Studleigh._ Illustrated.

Cloth, 1s. 6d.; Paper Covers, 1s. Illustrated.

_Across Her Path._
_A Divided House._ Cheap Edition.
_Sundered Hearts._
_Robert Martin's Lesson._
_Mistaken, and Marion Forsyth._
_Shadowed Lives._
_Ursula Vivian._ Cheap Edition.
_Dorothea Kirke._
_Vita Vinctis._ By Robina F. Hardy, Annie S. Swan, and
Jessie M. E. Saxby.
_Wrongs Righted._
_The Secret Panel._
_Thomas Dryburgh's Dream, and Miss Baxter's Bequest._
_Twice Tried._
_A Vexed Inheritance._
_Hazell & Sons._ Cheap Edition.
_A Bachelor in Search of a Wife._

Cloth, 9d.

_Mistaken._
_Marion Forsyth._
_Thomas Dryburgh's Dream._
_Miss Baxter's Bequest._

6d.

_Douglas Roy._
_Katie's Christmas Lesson._
_Tom's Memorable Christmas._
_Bess: The Story of a Waif._
_The Bonnie Jean._

Edinburgh and London
OLIPHANT ANDERSON & FERRIER.
MORRISON AND GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH.

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CONTENTS.

CHAP. PAGE

I. FATHERLESS, 7

II. WHAT TO DO WITH HER, 16

III. THE NEW HOME, 26

IV. A RAY OF LIGHT,