[Illustration: She sat alone now, gazing out across the hills. [PAGE 312]] THE WAY OUT BY EMERSON HOUGH [Illustration] MCKINLAY, STONE & MACKENZIE NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY EMERSON HOUGH Printed in the United States of America TO JAMES ALEXANDER BURNS PROPHET OF HIS PEOPLE CONTENTS BOOK I CHAPTER PAGE I. THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL 3 II. A NEW CREED 18 III. THE BLOOD COVENANT 30 IV. THE FROLIC AT SEMMES’ COVE 41 V. THE AWAKENING OF DAVID JOSLIN 50 VI. THE WANDERING WOMEN 58 VII. THE FABRIC OF A VISION 67 VIII. MARCIA HADDON, AND THE MERRY WIFE OF WINDSOR 72 IX. POLLY PENDLETON 92 X. MR. HADDON’S POINT OF VIEW 117 XI. POLLY PENDLETON’S VISITOR 123 XII. THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW WAY 133 BOOK II XIII. THE CLANS 141 XIV. THE CROSSROADS 154 XV. THE ORIGINAL SIN 170 BOOK III XVI. THE CITY ON THE HILL 181 XVII. THESE TWAIN 191 XVIII. MARCIA HADDON 209 XIX. THE NARROWS 215 XX. THE COMING OF JAMES HADDON 227 BOOK IV XXI. THE FURRIN WOMAN 233 XXII. WHEN GHOSTS ARISE 244 XXIII. GRANNY WILLIAMS’ NARRATIONS 255 XXIV. THE DRUMS 275 XXV. STRANGERS WITHIN THE GATES 281 XXVI. THE UNCERTIFIED 291 XXVII. THE SEEKING 299 XXVIII. THE EDUCATION OF DAVID JOSLIN 306 BOOK I THE WAY OUT CHAPTER I THE LAW AND THE GOSPEL “HUSH! Stop it, Davy. He’s a-comin’!”