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JUSTINE SHERROD.

THE SHERRODS

By

George Barr McCutcheon

Author of "Graustark", "Castle Craneycrow", Etc.

With Illustrations by C. D. Williams

Grosset & Dunlap New York

Copyright, 1903, by Dodd, Mead and Company Entered at Stationers' Hall Published September, 1903 HILL AND LEONARD NEW YORK CITY, U. S. A.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE SOFT SUMMER NIGHT

II. "LET NOT MAN PUT ASUNDER"

III. JUD AND JUSTINE

IV. MRS. HARDESTY'S CHARITY

V. WHEN THE CLASH CAME

VI. THE GIRL IN GRAY

VII. LEAVING PARADISE

VIII. THE FIRST WAS A CRIMINAL

IX. THE ENCOUNTER WITH CRAWLEY

X. THE CLOTHES AND THE MAN

XI. WHEN THE WIND BLOWS

XII. THE GOOD OF EVIL

XIII. THE FINDING OF CELESTE

XIV. "MY TRUEST COMRADE"

XV. ONE HEART FOR TWO

XVI. THE FALL OF THE WEAK

XVII. AT SEA

XVIII. 'GENE CRAWLEY'S SERMON

XIX. THE PURE AND THE POOR

XX. THE SOCIABLE

XXI. THE COMING IN THE NIGHT

XXII. THE FIRST-BORN

XXIII. THE TALE OF TEARS

XXIV. THE NIGHT OUT

XXV. THE LETTER TO CRAWLEY

XXVI. TWO WOMEN AND A BABE

XXVII. THE END OF IT ALL

XXVIII. HEARTS

XXIX. CRAWLEY'S LEGACY

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

JUSTINE SHERROD . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Frontispiece

"IN A SECOND CRAWLEY WAS ROLLING UP HIS SLEEVES"

"YOU MUST LET ME PAY YOU FOR IT"

"HIS EYES TOOK IN THE PICTURE"

"'YOU'RE A LIAR—YOU'RE ALL LIARS'"

"'IT IS NOT TRUE,' HALF SHRIEKED CELESTE"

THE SHERRODS