



Produced by Nathan Harris, Juliet Sutherland, Charles
Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team










A DAUGHTER OF FIFE


By

AMELIA E. BARR


AUTHOR OF "JAN VEDDER'S WIFE"




CONTENTS


CHAPTER I.--THE BEACHED BOAT

CHAPTER II.--THE UNKNOWN GUEST

CHAPTER III.--THE CAMPBELLS OF MERITON

CHAPTER IV.--MAGGIE AND ANGUS

CHAPTER V.--PARTING

CHAPTER VI.--OFF WITH THE OLD LOVE

CHAPTER VII.--MAGGIE

CHAPTER VIII.--THE BROKEN SIXPENCE

CHAPTER IX.--SEVERED SELVES AND SHADOWS

CHAPTER X.--MAGGIE'S FLIGHT

CHAPTER XI.--DRUMLOCH

CHAPTER XII.--TO THE HEBRIDES

CHAPTER XIII.--THE BROKEN TRYST

CHAPTER XIV.--THE MEETING PLACE

CHAPTER XV.--WOO'D AN' MARRIED AND A'




CHAPTER I.

THE BEACHING OF THE BOAT.


  "Thou old gray sea,
   Thou broad briny water,
   With thy ripple and thy plash,
   And thy waves as they lash
   The old gray rocks on the shore.
   With thy tempests as they roar,
   And thy crested billows hoar,
   And thy tide evermore
                    Fresh and free."

   --Dr. Blackie.


On the shore of a little land-locked haven, into which the gulls and
terns bring tidings of the sea, stands the fishing hamlet of Pittenloch.
It is in the "East Neuk o' Fife," that bit of old Scotland "fronted with a
girdle of little towns," of which Pittenloch is one of the smallest
and the most characteristic. Some of the cottages stand upon the sands,
others are grouped in a