I have wondered many times, while writing this simple story of life and love, if you would ever forgive me for putting you in a book. I hope you will, because if you do not, I shall be heartbroken, and you wouldn't want me that way, would you, Auntie Sue?
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I have wondered many times, while writing this simple story of life and love, if you would ever forgive me for putting you in a book. I hope you will, because if you do not, I shall be heartbroken, and you wouldn't want me that way, would you, Auntie Sue?
I fancy I can hear you say: "But, Harold, how COULD you! You know I never did the things you have made me do in your story. You know I never lived in a little log house by the river in the Ozark Mountains! What in the world will people think!"
Well, to tell the truth, dear, I don't care so very much what people think if only they will love you; and that they are sure to do, because,--well, just because--You must remember, too, that you will be eighty-seven years old the eighteenth of next November, and it is therefore quite time that someone put you in a book.
And, after all, Auntie Sue, are you very sure that you have never lived in a little log house by the river,--are you very sure, Auntie Sue?
Forgive my impertinence, as you have always forgiven me everything; and love me just the same, because I have written only in love of the dearest Auntie Sue in the world!
Signature [Harold]
The Glenwood Mission Inn, Riverside, California, April 30, 1919.
"And see the rivers, how they run
Through woods and meads, in shade and sun,
Sometimes swift, sometimes slow,--
Wave succeeding wave, they go
A various journey to the deep
Like human life to endless sleep!"
John Dyer--"Grongar Hill."
Preface
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Chapter 1 A Remarkable Woman
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Chapter 2 The Man In The Dark
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Chapter 3 A Missing Letter
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Chapter 4 The Will Of The River
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Chapter 5 Auntie Sue Recognizes A Gentleman
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Chapter 6 In The Log House By The River
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Chapter 7 Officers Of The Law
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Chapter 8 That Which Is Greater Than The Law
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Chapter 9 Auntie Sue's Proposition
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Chapter 10 Brian Kent Decides
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Chapter 11 Re-Creation
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Chapter 12 Auntie Sue Takes A Chance
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Chapter 13 Judy To The Rescue
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Chapter 14 Betty Jo Considers
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Chapter 15 A Matter Of Business
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Chapter 16 The Secret Of Auntie Sue's Life
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Chapter 17 An Awkward Situation
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Chapter 18 Betty Jo Faces Herself
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Chapter 19 Judy's Confession
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Chapter 20 Brian And Betty Jo Keep House
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Chapter 21 The Woman At The Window
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Chapter 22 At The Empire Consolidated Savings Bank
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Chapter 23 In The Elbow Rock Rapids
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Chapter 24 Judy's Return
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Chapter 25 The River
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