THE
INVISIBLE FOE
A STORY ADAPTED FROM THE PLAY
BY WALTER HACKETT
BY
LOUISE JORDAN MILN
(MRS. GEORGE CRICHTON MILN)
NEW YORK
FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
Copyright, 1918, 1920, by
Frederick A. Stokes Company
All rights reserved
“Blind, blind, blind”
CONTENTS
| BOOK I The Children | |
| BOOK II The Dark | |
| BOOK III The Quest | |
| BOOK IV The Light |
Transcriber’s Notes can be found at the end of this eBook.
THE CHILDREN
CHAPTER I
Stephen lay on his stomach, one sharp elbow comfortable in a velvet bedof moss, his chin cupped in his palm, his beautifully shaped head thrownback, his alert face lifted to the sky, his eager eyes followinghungrily the flight of a bird.
Hugh, crunched up against the big oak tree, was making a chain ofblossoms, and making it awkwardly enough, with many a restless boy-sigh,many a destruction of delicate spring wild flower.
Helen was playing by herself.
Nothing could have been more characteristic of the three children thantheir occupations of the moment.
Stephen usually was watching birds fly, when he was out of doors, andbirds were to be seen. And the only time his uncle Richard had ever laida hand (except in rare caress or in approbation) on the orphan boy, hadbeen when Stephen, three months