DEFICIENT SAINTS

A Tale of Maine

MARSHALL SAUNDERS

AUTHOR OF

"BEAUTIFUL JOE," "ROSE À CHARLITTE,"
"THE KING OF THE PARK," ETC.

"Keep who will the city's alleys,

Take the smooth-shorn plain,

Give to us the cedar valleys,

Rocks, and hills of Maine!"

LONDON

GEORGE BELL AND SONS

1903

TO
THE CITIZENS
OF
BEAUTIFUL BANGOR
THIS STORY IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED
BY THE AUTHOR

CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	The Elect Lady and Her Death-book	11
II.	An Unexpected Daughter-in-law	24
III.	To Him the World Was Gay	34
IV.	A Favour Solicited	51
V.	A Pastoral Visit	62
VI.	Stern Her Face and Masculine Her Stride	72
VII.	A Drive with a Strange Guide	81
VIII.	Of Mixed Blood	98
IX.	Tell Me Your Secrets	111
X.	A Reform in the Bill of Fare	122
XI.	In the Midst of Life We Are in Death	136
XII.	It Is All True	148
XIII.	A Dinner-party	162
XIV.	Unquiet Hearts	178
XV.	A Family Cemented by Love	191