THE WORKS OF KATHLEEN NORRIS

HARRIET AND THE PIPER

VOLUME XI



TO

DANIEL WEBB NYE

DEAR MAKER OF BOOKS AND FRIENDS




HARRIET AND THE PIPER




CHAPTER I


Richard Carter had called the place "Crownlands," not to please
himself, or even his wife. But it was to his mother's newly born
family pride that the idea of being the Carters of Crownlands made
its appeal. The estate, when he bought it, had belonged to a
Carter, and the tradition was that two hundred years before it had