Book One
Book One - Chapter 1. Betty
_ BOOK ONE
CHAPTER I. BETTY
Two whip-poor-wills were uttering their insistent note, hidden somewhere among the thick foliage of the maple and basswood trees that towered above the spring down behind the house where the Ballards lived. The sky in the west still glowed with amber light, and the crescent moon floated like a golden boat above the horizon‘s edge. The day had been unusually warm, and the family were all gathered on the front porch in the dusk. The lamps within were unlighted, and the evening wind blew the white muslin curtains out and in through the opened windows. The porch was low,--only a step from the ground,--and the grass of the dooryard felt soft and cool to the bare feet of the children.
In front and all around lay the garden--flowers and fruit quaintly intermingled. Down the long path to the gate, where three roads met, great bunches of peonies lifted white blossoms--luminously white in the moonlight； and on either s

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