E-text prepared by Roger Frank 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 illustration. See 27471-h.htm or 27471-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/7/4/7/27471/27471-h/27471-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/2/7/4/7/27471/27471-h.zip) THE WALL BETWEEN * * * * * By Sara Ware Bassett The Taming Of Zenas Henry The Wayfarers at The Angel's The Harbor Road The Wall Between * * * * * [Illustration: And now, by some miracle, here were the blossoms of Martin's raising. Frontispiece. _See page 159._] THE WALL BETWEEN by SARA WARE BASSETT With Frontispiece by Norman Price Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1920 Copyright, 1920, by Sara Ware Bassett. All rights reserved Published August, 1920 "Such are the miracles men call lives." --Edward Rowland Sill. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I A Modern Richelieu 1 II The Howes 20 III Lucy 38 IV The Episode of the Eggs 50 V A Clash of Wills 70 VI Ellen Encounters an Enigma 82 VII The Unraveling of the Mystery 95 VIII When the Cat's Away 109 IX Jane Makes a Discovery 135 X A Temptation 147 XI The Crossing of the Rubicon 163 XII The Test 189 XIII Melviny Arrives 205 XIV A Piece of Diplomacy 234 XV Ellen's Vengeance 246 XVI Lucy Comes to a Decision 258 XVII The Great Alternative 270 XVIII Love Triumphant 290 THE WALL BETWEEN CHAPTER I A MODERN RICHELIEU The Howe and Webster farms adjoined, lying on a sun-flooded, gently sloping New Hampshire hillside. Between them loomed The Wall. It was not a high wall. On the contrary, its formidableness was the result of tradition rather than of fact. For more than a century it had been an estranging barrier to neighborliness, to courtesy, to broad-mindedness; a barrier to friendship, to Christian charity, to peace.