HEART'S DESIRE

The Story of a Contented Town, Certain Peculiar Citizens, and Two
Fortunate Lovers

A Novel by EMERSON HOUGH

Author of _The Mississippi Bubble_, _The Law of the Land_, _The Girl at
the Half Way House_, etc







[Frontispiece: "He looked up--to see _her_ standing at his door!"]



New York
Grosset & Dunlap
Publishers
Copyright, 1903, 1904, 1905, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY.
Copyright, 1903, BY OUT WEST COMPANY.
Copyright, 1905, BY THE RIDGWAY-THAYER COMPANY.
Copyright, 1905, BY EMERSON HOUGH.
Copyright, 1905, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1905. Reprinted November,
1905: January, April, 1907; November, 1908.