THE GOING OF THE WHITE SWAN

"'No, no—this!' the priest said." (p. 54)

THE GOING OF
THE WHITE SWAN

BY

GILBERT PARKER

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
MCMXII

Copyright, 1912, by

GILBERT PARKER

Copyright, 1895, by Charles Scribner's Sons
Copyright, 1895, by Stone and Kimball
Copyright, 1898, by The Macmillan Company

THE GOING OF THE WHITE SWAN

CHAPTER I.

"Why don't she come back, father?"

The man shook his head, his hand fumbled with the wolfskin robe covering the child, and he made no reply.

"She'd come if she knew I was hurted, wouldn't she?"

The father nodded, and then turned restlessly toward the door, as though expecting some one. The look was troubled, and the