Front matter
Reading edition
BOOKS BY GENE STRATTON-PORTER
Nature
The Song of the Cardinal
Homing With the Birds
Birds of the Bible
Music of the Wild
Friends in Feathers
Moths of the Limberlost
Morning Face
Novels
Freckles
At the Foot of the Rainbow
A Girl of the Limberlost
The Harvester
Laddie
Michael O’Halloran
A Daughter of the Land
Her Father’s Daughter
The White Flag
Poetry
The Fire Bird
“What does my heart know of the heart of a child beating beneath it?”
THE WHITE FLAG
BY
GENE STRATTON-PORTER
FRONTISPIECE
BY
LESTER RALPH
S. B. GUNDY TORONTO
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
1923
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY
GENE STRATTON-PORTER
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION
INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN
COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES
AT
THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y.
First Edition
TO
THE BOYS AND GIRLS “GROWN TALL”
WITH WHOM, IN CHILDHOOD,
I PASSED UNDER
THE WHITE FLAG
CONTENTS
I “He That Was Cold and Hungry”
II The Gifts of Light and Song
III An Inquisition According to Mahlon
IV “Strength from Weakness”
V The Verdict Goes Against Jezebel
VI The Golden Egg
VII Field Mice Among the Wheat
VIII A Secret Among the Stars
IX Sometimes Your Soul Shows
X A Trick of the Subconscious
XI The Driver of the Chariot
XII Those Who Serve
XIII Only Three Words
XIV The Cloud That Grew
XV The Last Straw
XVI The Eyes of Elizabeth
XVII “A Millstone and the Human Heart”
XVIII A Triumph in Millinery
XIX Rebecca Pronounces Judgment
XX The Decision Marcia Reached
XXI “Whatsoever a Man Sows”
XXII Behind the Lilac Wall
XXIII The Flag on Its Journey
LIST OF CHARACTERS
Mahala Spellman, the Model Child
Mahlon Spellman, the Dry-goods Merchant
Elizabeth Spellman, a Fine Lady
Martin Moreland, the Harvester of Riches
Mrs. Martin Moreland, a Bewildered Wife
Martin Moreland, Junior, a Chip from the Paternal Block
Becky Sampson, Bearer of the White Flag
Edith Williams, the Child of Discontent
Marcia Peters, the Bearer of Chains
Jason Peters, Walking the Road
Mehitable Ashcroft, Teacher of Room Five
Peter Potter, the Village Grocer
Ellen Ford, a Wild Rose
Jemima Davis, a Friend in Need
Nancy Bodkin, Who Believed in Face Values
Remainder of characters: School children, villagers, a minister, a doctor, a lawyer, etc.