VI. Susanna Speaks in Meeting
VII. "The Lower Plane"
VIII. Concerning Backsliders
IX. Love Manifold
X. Brother and Sister
XI. "The Open Door"
XII. The Hills of Home





ROSE O' THE RIVER



I

The Pine And the Rose


It was not long after sunrise, and Stephen Waterman, fresh from his dip in the
river, had scrambled up the hillside from the hut in the alder-bushes where he
had made his morning toilet.

An early ablution of this sort was not the custom of the farmers along the
banks of the Saco, but the Waterman house was hardly a stone's throw from the
water, and there was a clear, deep swimming-hole in the Willow Cove that would
have tempted the busiest man, or the least cleanly, in York County. Then, too,
Stephen was a child of the river, born, reared, schooled on its very brink,