MARRIED UNCONSCIOUSLY

CHAPTEE XL
RITA ANDERSON

CHAPTEE XLI
A LITTLE CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM




CHAPTER I

AN EMBODIMENT OF MAY

"Beyond that revolving light lies my home. And yet why should I use
such a term when the best I can say is that a continent is my home?
Home suggests a loved familiar nook in the great world. There is no
such niche for me, nor can I recall any place around which my memory
lingers with especial pleasure."

In a gloomy and somewhat bitter mood, Alford Graham thus soliloquized
as he paced the deck of an in-coming steamer. In explanation it may be
briefly said that he had been orphaned early in life, and that the
residences of his guardians had never been made homelike to him. While
scarcely more than a child he had been placed at boarding-schools
where the system and routine made the youth's life little better than
that of a soldier in his barrack. Many boys would have grown hardy,
aggressive, callous, and very possibly vicious from being thrown out
on the world so early. Young Graham became reticent and to superficial