Joel: A Boy of Galilee $1.50 In the Desert of Waiting .50 The Three Weavers .50 Keeping Tryst .50 The Legend of the Bleeding Heart .50 The Rescue of the Princess Winsome .50 The Jester's Sword .50 Asa Holmes 1.00 Travelers Five Along Life's Highway 1.25 * * * * * L. C. PAGE & COMPANY 53 Beacon Street Boston, Mass. [Illustration: "'I DON'T WANT TO BE JUST AN OLD MAID SISTER IN SOMEBODY ELSE'S HOME.'" (_See page 34._)] Mary Ware's Promised Land By ANNIE FELLOWS JOHNSTON Author of "The Little Colonel Series," "Big Brother," "Ole Mammy's Torment," "Joel: A Boy of Galilee," "Asa Holmes," "Travelers Five on Life's Highway," etc. Illustrated by JOHN GOSS BOSTON L. C. PAGE & COMPANY MDCCCCXII _Copyright_, 1912, BY L. C. PAGE & COMPANY. (INCORPORATED) Entered at Stationers' Hall, London _All rights reserved_ First Impression, October, 1912 THE COLONIAL PRESS C. H. SIMONDS & CO., BOSTON, U. S. A. TO MISS FANNY CRAIG THE "MISS ALLISON" OF THESE STORIES, WHOSE "ROAD OF THE LOVING HEART" RUNS WIDE AND FAR THROUGH ALL THIS HAPPY VALLEY CONTENTS PART I CHAPTER PAGE I. A SEEKER OF NEW TRAILS 1 II. BACK AT LONE-ROCK 24 III. A NEW FRIEND 51 IV. THE WITCH WITH A WAND 68 V. P STANDS FOR PINK 91 VI. TOLD IN LETTERS 111 VII. A DESERT OF WAITING 126 VIII. A GREAT SORROW 144 PART II I. BETTY'S WEDDING 161 II. TOWARDS THE CANAAN OF HER DESIRE 183 III. THE SUPREME CALL 204 IV. "PINK" OR DIAMOND ROW 227 V. MARY AND THE "BIG OPPORTUNITY" 244 VI. PHIL WALKS IN 266 VII. HER GREAT RENUNCIATION 278 VIII. HOW IT ALL ENDED 300 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE "'I DON'T WANT TO BE JUST AN OLD MAID SISTER IN SOMEBODY ELSE'S HOME'" (_see page 34_) _Frontispiece_ "THERE WAS ONLY TIME TO . . . HASTILY CLASP THE LITTLE GLOVED HAND HELD OUT TO HIM" 4 "'I'LL SLEEP BETTER IF THEY ARE ON THEIR POLES INSTEAD OF ON MY MIND'" 26 "'I WISH WE COULD SETTLE THINGS BY A FEATHER, AS THEY USED TO IN THE OLD FAIRY TALES'" 77