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FLOWER OF THE GORSE

LOUIS TRACY

AUTHOR OF

THE WINGS OF THE MORNING,

ONE WONDERFUL NIGHT, Etc.

NEW YORK

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS

Dans la ville des meunières,
  Pont Aven, pays d'Amour,
Au Bord des ruisseaux d'eau claire,
  Fleur d'Ajonc chante toujours.

—Breton Song.

CONTENTS

I	The Tower and the Well
II	The Feast of Sainte Barbe
III	The Wreck
IV	The Home-coming
V	The Lifting of the Veil
VI	A Lull
VII	Mischief
VIII	The Tightening of the Net
IX	Showing How Harvey Raymond Began the Attack
X	Madeleine's Flight
XI	Mutterings of the Storm
XII	Wherein both the Reef and Mr. Raymond Yield Information
XIII	Showing How Tollemache Took Charge
XIV	A Breton Reckoning

FLOWER OF THE GORSE

CHAPTER I

THE TOWER AND THE WELL

"O, là, là! See, then, the best of good luck foreach one of us this year!"

Although Mère Pitou's

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