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CHAPTER IV. UNDER THE CLOUD.
* CHAPTER V. THE BURSTING OF THE STORM.
* CHAPTER VI. AFTER THE STORM.
* CHAPTER VII. THE LETTER.
* CHAPTER VIII. THE FLIGHT AND THE RETURN.
* CHAPTER IX. THE RECONCILIATION.
* CHAPTER X. AFTER THE STORM.
* CHAPTER XI. A NEW ACQUAINTANCE.
* CHAPTER XII. IN BONDS.
* CHAPTER XIII. THE REFORMERS.
* CHAPTER XIV. A STARTLING EXPERIENCE.
* CHAPTER XV. CAPTIVATED AGAIN.
* CHAPTER XVI. WEARY OF CONSTRAINT.
* CHAPTER XVII. GONE FOR EVER!
* CHAPTER XVIII. YOUNG, BUT WISE.
* CHAPTER XIX. THE SHIPWRECKED LIFE.
* CHAPTER XX. THE PALSIED HEART.
* CHAPTER XXI. THE IRREVOCABLE DECREE.
* CHAPTER XXII. STRUCK DOWN.
* CHAPTER XXIII. THE HAUNTED VISION.
* CHAPTER XXIV. THE MINISTERING ANGEL.
* CHAPTER XXV. BORN FOR EACH OTHER.
* CHAPTER XXVI. LOVE NEVER DIES.
* CHAPTER XXVII. EFFECTS OF THE STORM.
* CHAPTER XXVIII. AFTER THE STORM.
CHAPTER I.
THE WAR OF THE ELEMENTS.
NO June day ever opened with a fairer promise. Not a single cloud flecked the sky, and the sun coursed onward through the azure sea until past meridian, without throwing to the earth a single shadow. Then, low in the west, appeared something obscure and hazy, blending the hill-tops with the horizon; an hour later, and three or four small fleecy islands were seen, clearly outlined in the airy ocean, and slowly ascending--avant-couriers of a coming storm. Following these were mountain peaks, snow-capped and craggy, with desolate valleys between. Then, over all this arctic panorama, fell a sudden shadow. The white tops of the cloudy hills lost their clear, gleaming outlines and their slumbrous stillness. The atmosphere was in motion, and a white scud began to drive across the heavy, dark masses of clouds that lay far back against the sky in mountain-like re