E-text prepared by Mark C. Orton, Linda McKeown, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) The Douglas Novels Popular Edition By AMANDA M. DOUGLAS Cloth New uniform binding Per volume $1.00 BETHIA WRAY'S NEW NAME THE HEIR OF BRADLEY HOUSE OSBORNE OF ARROCHAR CLAUDIA FROM HAND TO MOUTH HOME NOOK HOPE MILLS IN TRUST WHOM KATHIE MARRIED THE FORTUNES OF THE FARADAYS LOST IN A GREAT CITY NELLY KINNARD'S KINGDOM OUT OF THE WRECK STEPHEN DANE SYDNIE ADRIANCE IN WILD ROSE TIME IN THE KING'S COUNTRY A WOMAN'S INHERITANCE FLOYD GRANDON'S HONOR THE OLD WOMAN WHO LIVED IN A SHOE FOES OF HER HOUSEHOLD A MODERN ADAM AND EVE IN A GARDEN SEVEN DAUGHTERS LEE AND SHEPARD Publishers BOSTON * * * * * FLOYD GRANDON'S HONOR by AMANDA M. DOUGLAS Author of "In Trust," "The Old Woman who lived in a Shoe," Etc. Boston Lee and Shepard Publishers 1899 Copyright, 1883, By Lee and Shepard. All rights reserved. TO DR. AND MRS. THEO. R. LUFF. Through silent spaces hands may be outstretched, Remembrance blossom in dim atmospheres; Friends are not less the friends though far apart; They count the loss and gain of vanished years. FLOYD GRANDON'S HONOR. CHAPTER I. "There is a courtesy of the heart. Is it akin to love?"--GOETHE.. It is the perfection of summer, early June, before the roses have shaken off their sweetness, and Grandon Park is lovely enough to compare with places whose beauty is an accretion of centuries rather than the work of decades. Yet these grand old trees and this bluff, with a strata of rock manifest here and there, are much older than the pretty settlement lying at its base. The quaint house of rough, gray stone, with a tower and a high balcony hung out at irregular intervals, the windows and angles and the curious pointed roof, stamp it as something different from the Swiss villas and cottage _ornees_ at its feet. Not very near, though; there is a spacious lawn and a wide drive, a grove of trees that can shut out intrusive neighbors to the south, as well as another dense thicket northward. There is the road at a distance on one side, and the broad, beautiful river on the other. Down below, a mile, perhaps, a rocky point juts out into the river, up above another, so this forms a kind of indentation, an exclusive sort of bay for the dwellers therein, and the whole rather aristocratic settlement is put down on the railway map as Grandon Park.