Front matter

Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed.

"SING," SAID LUKE GREVILLE, AS HE LEANT ON HIS OARS.

LUKE'S WIFE

BY

EVELYN R. GARRATT.

Author of "Meg of the Heather," "The Cry,"

"Millicent's Freedom," "The Radiant City,"

"A Diamond in the Rough," etc.

Illustrations by FRANCIS M. PARSONS.

IPSWICH: SMITHS, PUBLISHERS, SUITALL.

AND ALL BOOKSELLERS.

1926.

(Copyright.)

SMITHS,

PRINTERS, BOOKBINDERS, AND PUBLISHERS,

SUITALL, IPSWICH.

"Love is not blind, it is an extra eye, which

shows us what is most worthy of regard."

J. M. Barrie.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I. MOONLIGHT ON THE SEA

II. THE HOME COMING

III. LUKE'S MOTHER

IV. AN INCAPABLE HOUSEKEEPER

V. TWO POINTS OF VIEW

VI. THE STUDY

VII. RACHEL CONFIDES IN THE BISHOP

VIII. THE BISHOP COMES TO LUNCH

IX. GWEN

X. THE TRAINING BEGINS

XI. THE CHOIR THREATEN TO STRIKE

XII. RACHEL MAKES A MISTAKE

XIII. A BOX OF VIOLETS

XIV. DISAPPOINTMENT

XV. RACHEL'S PEARLS

XVI. THE CHURCH COUNCIL

XVII. LUKE IS DISCOURAGED

XVIII. GAS STOVES VERSUS MOUNTAINS

XIX. GWEN WRITES TO THE BISHOP

XX. NO LADY HEAD OF THE PARISH

XXI. THE BISHOP LOOKS INTO THE KITCHEN

XXII. THE DREAM OF HIS LIFE

XXIII. LUKE SEES HIMSELF

XXIV. FOR LUKE'S SAKE

XXV. THE DISTURBING ELEMENT

XXVI. LUKE TELLS RACHEL ABOUT HIS DREAM

XXVII. RACHEL'S GARDEN PARTY

XXVIII. "THINK OF RACHEL"

XXIX. IN THE LIGHT OF THE MOON

LUKE'S WIFE.