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Title: A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties
Author: Charles Major
Release Date: July 22, 2009 [EBook #29486]
Language: English
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A FOREST HEARTH
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[Illustration: "HE PRODUCED A SMALL GOLD WATCH WITH THE WORD 'RITA'
ENGRAVED UPON THE CASE."]
A Forest Hearth
A ROMANCE OF INDIANA IN THE THIRTIES
BY
CHARLES MAJOR
AUTHOR OF "DOROTHY VERNON OF HADDON HALL," "THE BEARS OF BLUE RIVER,"
"WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER," ETC.
_WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY CLYDE O. DELAND_
New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
LONDON: MACMILLAN & CO., LTD.
1903
_All rights reserved_
COPYRIGHT, 1903,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up, electrotyped, and published October, 1903.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
PAGE
I. ON THE HEART OF THE HEARTH 11
II. THE BACHELOR HEART 27
III. THE SYCAMORE DIVAN 45
IV. THE DEBUTANTE 61
V. UNDER THE ELM CANOPY 87
VI. THE FIGHT BY THE RIVER SIDE 107
VII. THE TRIAL 133
VIII. A CHRISTMAS HEARTH LOG 153
IX. DIC LENDS MONEY GRATIS 179
X. THE TOURNAMENT 203
XI. A KISS AND A DUEL
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