Oh! it was beautiful, the autumn twilight, the smoke of her own hearthside rising through the brick chimneys! She thought she had left the way of peace behind her, but no, the way of peace was here, where her duty was, and her husband and children. The sea was deep blue; the home hills rolled softly along the horizon; the little gate that Susanna had closed behind her in anger and misery stood wide open; shrubs, borders, young hedge-rows, beds of late autumn flowers greeted her eyes and touched her heart. A foot sounded on the threshold; the home door opened and smiled a greeting; and then a voice choked with feeling, glad with welcome, called her name. Light-footed Sue ran with a cry of joy into her father's outstretched arms, and then leaping down darted to Ellen, chattering like a magpie. Husband and wife looked at each other for one quivering moment, and then clasped each other close. "Forgive! O Susanna, forgive!" John's eyes and lips and arms made mute appeals, and it was then Susanna said, "Never mind, John! Let's forget, and begin all over again!" [Illustration] =The Riverside Press= CAMBRIDGE . MASSACHUSETTS U . S . A THE OLD PEABODY PEW By KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN "A characteristically bright tale of a New England life full of sentiment and humor."--_Outlook, N. Y._ "The cheeriest of the stories by this gifted author."--_Philadelphia Telegraph._ "Mrs. Wiggin has never penned a more truthful or delightful idyl of New England life."--_Boston Herald._ "A delightful mingling of humor and sentiment and pathos."--_N. Y. Herald._ "A story that compels laughter as well as tears and makes us think better of the workaday world in which we live."--_Budget and Beacon._ With border designs and full-page illustrations in color, $1.50. HOUGHTON BOSTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY NEW YORK REBECCA of SUNNYBROOK FARM By KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN "Of all the children of Mrs. Wiggin's brain, the most laughable and the most lovable is Rebecca." _Life, N. Y._ "Rebecca creeps right into one's affections and stays there." _Philadelphia Item._ "A character that is irresistible in her quaint, humorous originality." _Cleveland Leader._ "Rebecca is as refreshing as a draught of spring water." _Los Angeles Times._ "Rebecca has come to stay with one for all time, and delight one perpetually, like Marjorie Fleming." _Literary World, Boston._ With decorative cover 12mo, $1.25 HOUGHTON BOSTON MIFFLIN AND COMPANY NEW YORK By KATE DOUGLAS WIGGIN THE BIRDS' CHRISTMAS CAROL "There is no sweeter story published than _The Birds' Christmas Carol_, a story which for grace and delicacy, for pathos and humor, is equal to anything ever written for children or, for that matter, for older readers." _Boston Advertiser._ Illustrated. Fifty cents. THE STORY OF PATSY