Transcriber's note: Unusual and inconsistent spelling is as printed. [Illustration: "SING," SAID LUKE GREVILLE, AS HE LEANT ON HIS OARS.] LUKE'S WIFE BY EVELYN R. GARRATT. Author of "Meg of the Heather," "The Cry," "Millicent's Freedom," "The Radiant City," "A Diamond in the Rough," etc. Illustrations by FRANCIS M. PARSONS. IPSWICH: SMITHS, PUBLISHERS, SUITALL. AND ALL BOOKSELLERS. 1926. (Copyright.) SMITHS, PRINTERS, BOOKBINDERS, AND PUBLISHERS, SUITALL, IPSWICH. "Love is not blind, it is an extra eye, which shows us what is most worthy of regard." J. M. Barrie. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I. MOONLIGHT ON THE SEA II. THE HOME COMING III. LUKE'S MOTHER IV. AN INCAPABLE HOUSEKEEPER V. TWO POINTS OF VIEW VI. THE STUDY VII. RACHEL CONFIDES IN THE BISHOP VIII. THE BISHOP COMES TO LUNCH IX. GWEN X. THE TRAINING BEGINS XI. THE CHOIR THREATEN TO STRIKE XII. RACHEL MAKES A MISTAKE XIII. A BOX OF VIOLETS XIV. DISAPPOINTMENT XV. RACHEL'S PEARLS XVI. THE CHURCH COUNCIL XVII. LUKE IS DISCOURAGED XVIII. GAS STOVES VERSUS MOUNTAINS XIX. GWEN WRITES TO THE BISHOP XX. NO LADY HEAD OF THE PARISH XXI. THE BISHOP LOOKS INTO THE KITCHEN XXII. THE DREAM OF HIS LIFE XXIII. LUKE SEES HIMSELF XXIV. FOR LUKE'S SAKE XXV. THE DISTURBING ELEMENT XXVI. LUKE TELLS RACHEL ABOUT HIS DREAM XXVII. RACHEL'S GARDEN PARTY XXVIII. "THINK OF RACHEL" XXIX. IN THE LIGHT OF THE MOON [Illustration] LUKE'S WIFE. CHAPTER I. MOONLIGHT ON THE SEA. "Sing," said Luke Greville, as he leant on his oars and looked at his wife sitting in the stern of the boat. And Rachel sang. The boat lay almost still in the silver pathway flung by the moon across the sea. There was scarcely a ripple. Rachel's voice trembled a little when she began to sing, as a sense of mystery and wonder enveloped her. The dark sea beyond them; the earnest face of her husband lit up by the moonlight; the fact that they were quite alone on the vast waste of water, combined to fill her with awe and to make her voice a little unsteady for a moment. Her singing thrilled her husband as he sat listening. His dream had come true; and this last evening of their honeymoon they were alone on the sea; in quiet; with God. Rachel sang; and these were the words that she sang:—