------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE WHITE FLAG ------------------------------------------------------------------------ BOOKS BY GENE STRATTON-PORTER _Nature_ THE SONG OF THE CARDINAL HOMING WITH THE BIRDS BIRDS OF THE BIBLE MUSIC OF THE WILD FRIENDS IN FEATHERS MOTHS OF THE LIMBERLOST MORNING FACE _Novels_ FRECKLES AT THE FOOT OF THE RAINBOW A GIRL OF THE LIMBERLOST THE HARVESTER LADDIE MICHAEL O’HALLORAN A DAUGHTER OF THE LAND HER FATHER’S DAUGHTER THE WHITE FLAG _Poetry_ THE FIRE BIRD ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: “What does my heart know of the heart of a child beating beneath it?”] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ THE WHITE FLAG BY GENE STRATTON-PORTER FRONTISPIECE BY LESTER RALPH S. B. GUNDY TORONTO DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY GARDEN CITY NEW YORK 1923 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY GENE STRATTON-PORTER ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES, INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY INTERNATIONAL MAGAZINE COMPANY PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY, N. Y. _First Edition_ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ TO THE BOYS AND GIRLS “GROWN TALL” WITH WHOM, IN CHILDHOOD, I PASSED UNDER THE WHITE FLAG ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CONTENTS