XVII. The Prize

XVIII. So as by Fire

XIX. Living it Down

XX. Home Again




RUTH ARNOLD;

Or, The Country Cousin.




CHAPTER I.

A LETTER.


School was over, and the holidays were beginning once more, summer
holidays, with all their promise of pleasure for dwellers in the
country. The scent of sweet new hay was borne on the afternoon breeze,
and the broad sunlight lay on fields of waving corn which would soon be
ready for the sickle, and on green meadows from which the hay was being
carried.