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Title: Rockhaven

Author: Charles Munn

Illustrator: Frank Merrill

Release Date: September 21, 2010 [EBook #33787]

Language: English

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ROCKHAVEN

BY CHARLES CLARK MUNN

AUTHOR OF "POCKET ISLAND" AND "UNCLE TERRY"

_ILLUSTRATED BY_
_FRANK T. MERRILL_

BOSTON
LEE AND SHEPARD
MCMII

Published March, 1902.

Copyright, 1902, by Lee and Shepard.

_All Rights Reserved._

Rockhaven.

Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith
Norwood Mass. U.S.A.

To All
WHO DESPISE HYPOCRISY AND DECEPTION
WHO ADMIRE MANLY COURAGE AND WOMANLY DEVOTION
WHOSE HEARTS YET VIBRATE TO THE
CHORDS OF ROMANCE
AND WHO RESPECT SIMPLE FAITH IN AND
GRATITUDE TO GOD
This Book is Respectfully Dedicated
BY THE AUTHOR

[Illustration: THE OLD TIDE-MILL.]

CONTENTS

I. ON ROCKHAVEN

II. WINN HARDY

III. THE ROCKHAVEN GRANITE COMPANY

IV. WHERE THE SEA-GULLS COME

V. JESS HUTTON

VI. THE BUD OF A ROMANCE

VII. SUNDAY ON ROCKHAVEN

VIII. THE HAND OF FATE

IX. A FRIENDLY HAND

X. MONA HUTTON

XI. THE DEVIL'S OVEN

XII. THE PARTING OF THE WAYS

XIII. WILD ROSES

XIV. J. MALCOLM WESTON

XV. A MATTER OF BUSINESS

XVI. THE GROWTH OF A BUBBLE

XVII. IN THE PATH OF MOONLIGHT

XVIII. IN A FOG

XIX. A PHILOSOPHER

XX. A CLOUD OVER ROCKHAVEN

XXI. THE MOOD OF THE BELLS

XXII. TWO RASCALS

XXIII. THE STARTING OF A "CORNER"

XXIV. THE PROGRESS OF A "CORNER"

XXV. A SUMMER DAY

XXVI. A CLIMAX

XXVII. SEVERING THE TIES

XXVIII. ON 'CHANGE

XXIX. THE BUBBLE RISES

XXX. THE BUBBLE BURSTS

XXXI. TWO DOGS AND A BONE

XXXII. THE AFTERMATH OF A SWINDLE

XXXIII. A TOUCH OF HEROISM

XXXIV. A WOMAN'S WILES

XXXV. THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE