E-text prepared by Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 25954-h.htm or 25954-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/9/5/25954/25954-h/25954-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/5/9/5/25954/25954-h.zip) THE OPENED SHUTTERS A Novel by CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM * * * * * By Clara Louise Burnham THE OPENED SHUTTERS. Illustrated, 12mo, $1.50. JEWEL: A CHAPTER IN HER LIFE. Illustrated. 12mo, $1.50. JEWEL'S STORY BOOK. Illustrated, 12mo, $1.50. THE RIGHT PRINCESS. 12mo, $1.50. MISS PRITCHARD'S WEDDING TRIP. 12mo, $1.50. YOUNG MAIDS AND OLD. 16mo, $1.25; paper, 50 cents. DEARLY BOUGHT. 16mo, $1.25; paper, 50 cents. NO GENTLEMEN. 16mo, $1.25; paper, 50 cents. A SANE LUNATIC. 16mo, $1.25; paper, 50 cents. NEXT DOOR. 16mo, $1.25; paper, 50 cents. THE MISTRESS OF BEECH KNOLL. 16mo, $1.25; paper, 50 cents. MISS BAGG'S SECRETARY. 16mo, $1.25; paper, 50 cents. DR. LATIMER. 16mo, $1.25; paper, 50 cents. SWEET CLOVER. A Romance of the White City. 16mo, $1.25; paper, 50 cents. THE WISE WOMAN. 16mo, $1.25; paper, 50 cents. MISS ARCHER ARCHER. 16mo, $1.25. A GREAT LOVE. A Novel. 16mo, $1.25; paper, 50 cents. A WEST POINT WOOING, and Other Stories. 16mo, $1.25. HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO. BOSTON AND NEW YORK. * * * * * THE OPENED SHUTTERS A Novel by CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM With Frontispiece by Harrison Fisher [Illustration: SYLVIA _From a drawing by Harrison Fisher_] Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1906 Copyright 1906 by Clara Louise Burnham All Rights Reserved Published October 1906 TO C. D. T. CONTENTS I. JUDGE TRENT 1 II. MARTHA LACEY 12 III. A RAILWAY TRIP 22 IV. HOTEL FRISBIE 29 V. JUDGE TRENT'S STUDY 43 VI. SYLVIA'S CALLER 57 VII. THE MILL FARM 69 VIII. IN HARBOR 82 IX. EDNA DERWENT 91 X. CAPITULATION 101 XI. THINKRIGHT'S LETTER 112 XII. A LOST OAR 124 XIII. UNCLE AND NIECE 135 XIV. BLIND MAN'S HOLIDAY 146 XV. A FLITTING 155 XVI. EVOLUTION 161