[Illustration: MISS LADY]



THE LAW OF THE LAND


_Of Miss Lady, whom it involved in mystery, and of
John Eddring, gentleman of the South, who
read its deeper meaning_

A NOVEL

_By_

EMERSON HOUGH

Author of

The Mississippi Bubble
The Way to the West

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

ARTHUR I. KELLER


COPYRIGHT 1904

EMERSON HOUGH