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THE OPENED SHUTTERS

A Novel

by

CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM


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By Clara Louise Burnham

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THE OPENED SHUTTERS

A Novel

by

CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM

With Frontispiece by Harrison Fisher







[Illustration: SYLVIA
_From a drawing by Harrison Fisher_]




Boston and New York
Houghton, Mifflin and Company
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1906

Copyright 1906 by Clara Louise Burnham
All Rights Reserved

Published October 1906




TO
C. D. T.




CONTENTS


     I. JUDGE TRENT                                           1

    II. MARTHA LACEY                                         12

   III. A RAILWAY TRIP                                       22

    IV. HOTEL FRISBIE                                        29

     V. JUDGE TRENT'S STUDY                                  43

    VI. SYLVIA'S CALLER                                      57

   VII. THE MILL FARM                                        69

  VIII. IN HARBOR                                            82

    IX. EDNA DERWENT                                         91

     X. CAPITULATION                                        101

    XI. THINKRIGHT'S LETTER                                 112

   XII. A LOST OAR                                          124

  XIII. UNCLE AND NIECE                                     135

   XIV. BLIND MAN'S HOLIDAY                                 146

    XV. A FLITTING                                          155

   XVI. EVOLUTION                                           161

  XVII. THE ROSY CLOUD                                      170

 XVIII. HAWK ISLAND                                         180

   XIX. A NOR'EASTER                                        189

    XX. THE POOL                                            200

   XXI. A SWIMMING LESSON                                   213

  XXII. BLUEBERRYING                                        222

 XXIII. A PHILTRE                                           228

  XXIV. SYLVIA'S MYSTERY                                    239

   XXV. THE LITTLE RIFT                                     248

  XXVI. REVELATION                                          257

 XXVII. MISUNDERSTANDING                                    265

XXVIII. THE POTION                                          277

  XXIX. THE WHITE BAG                                       288

   XXX. THE LIGHT BREAKS                                    297

  XXXI. RECONCILIATION                                      309

 XXXII. A SO