75
CHAPTER XXI. THE HIGH MOUNTAINS. 78

PART II
CHAPTER I. A COUPLE OF BARBARIANS. 82
CHAPTER II. A YOUNG QUEEN. 86
CHAPTER III. NOT LIKE OTHERS. 94
CHAPTER IV. A YOUNG AUSTRALIAN. 98
CHAPTER V. FORSAKEN. 103
CHAPTER VI. WITHOUT HER TREASURE. 108
CHAPTER VII. MAGGIE TO THE RESCUE. 113
CHAPTER VIII. THE HERMIT'S HUT. 117
CHAPTER IX. AN OLD SONG. 121
CHAPTER X. LOOKING AT HERSELF. 126
CHAPTER XI. THE WORTH OF A DIAMOND. 131
CHAPTER XII. RELICS AND A WELCOME. 135
CHAPTER XIII. VERY ROUGH WEATHER. 139
CHAPTER XIV. A NOVEL HIDING-PLACE. 144
CHAPTER XV. A DILEMMA. 149
CHAPTER XVI. FIREFLY. 151
CHAPTER XVII. TO THE RESCUE. 155
CHAPTER XVIII. OH, FIE! POLLY. 159
CHAPTER XIX. ONE YEAR AFTER. 165

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POLLY:
A NEW-FASHIONED GIRL.

CHAPTER I.

A GREAT MISFORTUNE.

It was an intensely hot July day--not a cloud appeared in the high blue
vault of the sky; the trees, the flowers, the grasses, were all
motionless, for not even the gentlest zephyr of a breeze was abroad; the
whole world seemed lapped in a sort of drowsy, hot, languorous slumber.
Even the flowers bowed their heads a little weariedly, and the birds
after a time ceased singing, and got into the coolest and most shady
parts of the great forest trees. There they sat and talked to one
another of the glorious weather, for they liked the heat, although it
made them too lazy to sing.

It was an open plain of country, and although there were clumps of trees
here and there, great clumps with cool shade under them, there were also
acres and acres of common land on which the sun beat remorselessly. This
land was covered with heather, not yet in flower, and with bracken,
which was already putting on its autumn glory of yellow and red. Neither
the bracken nor the heather minded the July heat, but the butterflies
thought it a trifle uncomfortable, and made for the clumps of trees, and
looked longingly and regretfully at what had been a noisy, babbling
little brook, but was now a dry and stony channel, dese