



Produced by Al Haines










TREASURE VALLEY


BY

MARIAN KEITH


_Author of "Duncan Polite," "The Silver Maple," etc,_





JENNINGS & GRAHAM

CINCINNATI, CHICAGO, KANSAS CITY,

SAN FRANCISCO

1909




Copyright, 1908, by

GEORGE H. DORAN


J. F. TAPLEY CO.

New York




CONTENTS


CHAPTER
TOC
     I.  THE HERMIT THRUSH SINGS
    II.  AN ADVENTUROUS EXPEDITION
   III.  HIS FIRST PATIENT
    IV.  THE ORPHAN ARRIVES
     V.  THE MILKSTAND CLUB
    VI.  A FAMOUS PRACTITIONER
   VII.  THE TRAINING OF THE ORPHANS
  VIII.  A STRANGE COMRADESHIP
    IX.  THE SONG IN THE NIGHT
     X.  THE SECRET OF THE BLUE SILK GOWN
    XI.  THE COMING OF ROSALIE
   XII.  A RUSH FOR THE GOAL
  XIII.  THE TREASURE-BOOK
   XIV.  THE HERALD OF SPRING
    XV.  THE ELOPEMENT
   XVI.  THE CALL OF THE BANSHEE
  XVII.  THE DAWN
 XVIII.  THE END OF THE WAITING
   XIX.  THE HERMIT SINGS AGAIN
ETOC



TREASURE VALLEY


CHAPTER I

THE HERMIT THRUSH SINGS

  Then twilight falls with the touch
  Of a hand that soothes and stills,
  And a swamp-robin sings into light
  The lone white star of the hills.

  Alone in the dusk he sings,
  And the joy of another day
  Is folded in peace and borne
  On the drift of years away