XXI. THE SISTERS

XXII. THE HOUSE OF MOURNING

XXIII. NIAGARA

XXIV. HOME

XXV. HAGAR

XXVI. AUGUST EIGHTEENTH, 1858




MAGGIE MILLER.




CHAPTER I.

THE OLD HOUSE BY THE MILL.


'Mid the New England hills, and beneath the shadow of their dim old
woods, is a running brook whose deep waters were not always as merry
and frolicsome as now; for years before our story opens, pent up and
impeded in their course, they dashed angrily against their prison
walls, and turned the creaking wheel of an old sawmill with a sullen,