Isla Heron

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Richards Laura Elizabeth Howe. Isla Heron

CHAPTER I. THE PREACHER

CHAPTER II. THE HERONS

CHAPTER III. SPRING AND THE CHILDREN

CHAPTER IV. THE SCARLET SORREL

CHAPTER V “LONE, LONE, THOU HAST LEFT ME HERE.”

CHAPTER VI. THE NEW TEACHING

CHAPTER VII. LITTLE JACOB

CHAPTER VIII. LOCHABER NO MORE!

CHAPTER IX. THE NEW SCHOLARS

CHAPTER X. JOE’S TREASURY

CHAPTER XI. DISCOVERY

CHAPTER XII. THE WILD ROCKS AGAIN

CHAPTER XIII. THE LAST

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THE morning service was over, and the congregation gone home. The preacher was to dine with Captain Maynard, but there was an hour and more to dinner-time, and she had begged permission to stroll about for half an hour, promising to find her way to the comfortable white cottage, perched on a point of rock overlooking the little bay.

Now she was standing on the lower rocks, looking about her; a trim, quiet figure in a black gown, with a close straw bonnet set on her smooth brown hair. She “didn’t handsome much,” the people decided, but she had a taking way with her, and preached good, sound Advent doctrine. They were glad she had come, and would be sorry when the schooner should take her on her way the next day, to preach at other places along the coast.

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“You saw her, did you?” he said. “Yes! yes! anybody would notice Isly. She’d be queen of this hull island, if folks had their rights, and if other folks knowed a queen when they saw her. Not governor, I don’t mean, nor yet anything of that sort, but a real queen, with a crown on her head, and all the folks down on their marrer-bones every time she set her foot out-o’-doors.”

“I don’t understand you,” said the preacher. “Do you mean that the island belongs by right to that young girl?”

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