HER LORD AND MASTER

Contents

CHAPTER

I.—A Reunion
II.—Birds of Passage
III.—On a Model Farm
IV.—Springtime
V.—Camp Indiana
VI.—Guests
VII.—The Weaver
VIII.—The World's Rest
IX.—In an Orchard of the Memory
X.—The Might of the Falls
XI.—A Moonlight Picnic
XII.—Leading to the Altar
XIII.—England
XIV.—Transplantation
XV.—"I Shall Keep My Promise"
XVI.—An Escapade
XVII.—Late Visitors
XVIII.—Awakening
XIX.—"And as He Wove, He Heard Singing"

Illustrations

"You locked me out!" she said, hysterically. Frontispiece

"I'd call the picture, 'Indiana.'"

Catching Pollywogs

"I—I—what have I said? I didn't mean it."

"I will have love to help me."

Foreword

"Her Lord and Master," by Martha Morton, was first produced in New York, during the Spring of 1902. The play met with great success, and ran for over one hundred nights at the Manhattan Theatre.

Miss Victoria Morton, the sister of the playwright, now presents "Her Lord and Master" as a novel.

The play is being produced in the principal cities during this season.

CHAPTER I.

A Reunion.

"Did the ladies arrive, Mr. Stillwater?" inquired the clerk at the Waldorf Hotel, New York, as a tall, broad-shouldered man, unmistakably Western in appearance, walked smilingly up to the desk.

"Bag and baggage, bless their hearts!"

A dark, distinguished looking man, who was looking over the register, glanced at the speaker, then moved slightly to one side as the latter took up the pen. Stillwater registered in a quick, bold hand, and walked away. The dark gentleman turned again to the register and read:

"Horatio Stillwater, Stillwater, Indiana."

"Horatio Stillwater, Stillwater!" he remarked to the clerk with a cultured English accent. "A coincidence, I