Produced by Suzanne Shell, Ernest Schaal, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) A DAUGHTER OF JEHU [Illustration: "A daughter of Jehu, for behold she driveth furiously." [PAGE 50] ] A DAUGHTER OF JEHU BY LAURA E. RICHARDS AUTHOR OF "ABIGAIL ADAMS AND HER TIMES," "PIPIN," ETC. [Illustration] ILLUSTRATED [Music: THE DUKE OF LEE] D. APPLETON AND COMPANY NEW YORK LONDON 1918 COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY Printed in the United States of America TO HENRIETTE AND MOLLY WITH MUCH LOVE CONTENTS PAGE Prologue 1 CHAPTER I. Cyrus . . . . . . . . . . . 5 II. Enter Kitty . . . . . . . . . . 17 III. Ross House . . . . . . . . . . 29 IV. The Home Guard . . . . . . . . . . 41 V. The Neighbors . . . . . . . . . . 51 VI. Johanna Ex Machina . . . . . . . . . 67 VII. A Symposium . . . . . . . . . . 80 VIII. The Trivial Round . . . . . . . . . 98 IX. The Skeleton in Cyrus' Cupboard . . . . . 113 X. The Party . . . . . . . . . . 126 XI. On the Rialto . . . . . . . . . 150 XII. Wilson Wimberley Wibird . . . . . . 167 XIII. Pilot . . . . . . . . . . . 186 XIV. Johanna Rediviva . . . . . . . . 200 XV. Largely Literary . . . . . . . . 212 XVI. Psycho-Cardiac Processes . . . . . . 222 XVII. Kitty Sings . . . . . . . . . . 237 XVIII. Old Love and New . . . . . . . . 252 XIX. "The Trivial Round" . . . . . . . . 265 XX. The Pan-American . . . . . . . . 276 XXI. The Tribulations of Cyrus . . . . . . 289 XXII. The Duke of Lee . . . . . . . . . 303 XXIII. Haste to the Wedding! . . . . . . . 316 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS