Preface

ONLY AN INCIDENT

BY GRACE DENIO LITCHFIELD

1883

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I. JOPPA

II. PHEBE

III. GERALD

IV. MRS. UPJOHN'S ENTERTAINMENT

V. FRIENDS

VI. THE PICNIC

VII. TRIED AS BY FIRE

VIII. GERALD OBEYS ORDERS

IX. JOPPA'S MINISTRATIONS TO THE SICK

X. an APOLOGY AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

XI."MY SON DICK"

XII. WHY DO SUMMER ROSES FADE?

XIII. JOPPA'S TRIAL

XIV. PHEBE'S GOOD-BY

XV. ONLY AN INCIDENT

TO GRACE HILL AND EDWIN C. LITCHFIELD.

TO HER FOR WHOSE DEAR SAKE THE STORY WAS PENNED, ALTHOUGH HER EYES HAVE NEVER REST UPON ITS PAGES, AND TO HIM WHOSE TENDER WATCH OVER ITS GROWTH HAS BEEN ITS VITAL INSPIRATION—TO THE TWO WHO ARE BUT ONE FOREVER IN THE HEART OF THEIR DAUGHTER, THIS LITTLE FIRST BOOK IS MOST LOVINGLY INSCRIBED.

ONLY AN INCODENT