Chapter I: Front Matter

POPULAR NOVELS

BY

MRS. MARY J. HOLMES.

TEMPEST AND SUNSHINE.
ENGLISH ORPHANS.
HOMESTEAD ON HILLSIDE.
’LENA RIVERS.
MEADOW BROOK.
DORA DEANE.
COUSIN MAUDE.
MARIAN GREY.
EDITH LYLE.
DAISY THORNTON.
CHATEAU D’OR.
QUEENIE HETHERTON.
BESSIE’S FORTUNE.
MARGUERITE.
DARKNESS AND DAYLIGHT.
HUGH WORTHINGTON.
CAMERON PRIDE.
ROSE MATHER.
ETHELYN’S MISTAKE.
MILBANK.
EDNA BROWNING.
WEST LAWN.
MILDRED.
FORREST HOUSE.
MADELINE.
CHRISTMAS STORIES.
GRETCHEN.
DR. HATHERN’S DAUGHTERS. (_New._)

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BY
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SUCCESSOR TO
G. W. CARLETON & CO., New York.

MRS. HALLAM’S COMPANION.
AND
THE SPRING FARM,
AND OTHER TALES.

BY

MRS. MARY J. HOLMES

AUTHOR OF

“TEMPEST AND SUNSHINE,” “’LENA RIVERS,” “GRETCHEN,” “MARGUERITE,” “DR.
HATHERN’S DAUGHTERS,” ETC., ETC.

NEW YORK:

_G. W. Dillingham, Publisher_,

MDCCCXCVI.

COPYRIGHT, 1896, BY
MRS. MARY J. HOLMES.

[_All rights reserved._]

CONTENTS

MRS. HALLAM’S COMPANION
Chapter Page
I. The Hallams 9
II. The Homestead 24
III. Mrs. Hallam’s Applicants 36
IV. Mrs. Fred Thurston 40
V. The Companion 49
VI. On the Teutonic 58
VII. Reginald and Phineas Jones 67
VIII. Rex at the Homestead 79
IX. Rex Makes Discoveries 90
X. At Aix-les-Bains 95
XI. Grace Haynes 108
XII. The Night of the Opera 114
XIII. After the Opera 122
XIV. At the Beau-Rivage 131
XV. The Unwelcome Guest 139
XVI. Tangled Threads 144
XVII. On the Sea 149
XVIII. On Sea and Land 158
XIX. “I, Rex, Take Thee, Bertha 163

THE SPRING FARM.
I. At the Farm House 169
II. Where Archie Was 174
III. Going West 180
IV. On the Road 184
V. Miss Raynor 194
VI. The School Mistress 199
VII. At the Cedars 205
VIII. Max at the Cedars 209
IX. “Good-Bye, Max; Good-Bye.” 218
X. At Last 225

THE HEPBURN LINE.
I. My Aunts 235
II. Doris 246
III. Grantley Montague and Dorothea 254
IV. Aleck and Thea 268
V. Doris and the Glory Hole 278
VI. Morton Park 280
VII. A Soliloquy 291
VIII. My Cousin Grantley 293
IX. Grantley and Doris 298
X. Thea at Morton Park 307
XI. The Crisis 317
XII. The Missing Link 322
XIII. The Three Brides 332
XIV. Two Years Later 336

MILDRED’S AMBITION.
I. Mildred 339
II. At Thornton Park 345
III. Incidents of Fifteen Years 352
IV. At the Farm House 358
V. The Bride 365
VI. Mrs. Giles Thornton 374
VII. Calls at the Park 380
VIII. Mildred and her Mother 387
IX. Gerard and his Father 395
X. In the Cemetery 399
XI. What Followed 405
XII. Love versus Money 409
XIII. The Will 414
XIV. Mildred and Hugh 418
XV. The Denouement 424
XVI. Sunshine After the Storm 431

MRS. HALLAM’S COMPANION.