BARREN GROUND
by
ELLEN GLASCOW
GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers
by arrangement with Doubleday Page & Co.
CONTENTS
Part First—Broomsedge
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Part Second—Pine
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI
Chapter XVII
Chapter XVIII
Chapter XIX
Part Third—Life-everlasting
Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
PART FIRST
BROOMSEDGE
"A girl in an orange-colored shawl. . . ."
BARREN
GROUND
I
A girl in an orange-coloured shawl stood at the window of Pedlar's storeand looked, through the falling snow, at the deserted road. Though shewatched there without moving, her attitude, in its stillness, gave animpression of arrested flight, as if she were running toward life.
Bare, starved, desolate, the country closed in about her. The last trainof the day had gone by without stopping, and the station of Pedlar'sMill was as lonely