A Hoosier Chronicle - Classic Reprint Author:Meredith Nicholson CHAPTER I — MY LADY OF THE CONSTELLATIONS — SYLVIA vas reading in her grandfather's library — when the bell tinkled. Professor Kelton had — few callers, and as there was never any certainty — that the maid-of-all-work would trouble — herself to answer, Sylvia put down her book and — went to the door. Very likely it was a student — or a member of the fac... more »uIty, and as her grandfather
was not at home Sylvia was quite sure that the interruption
,,,"ould be the briefest.
The Kelton cottage stood just off the campus, and
was separated from it by a narrow street that
curved round the college and stole, after many twists
and turns, into town. This thoroughfare was called
fl Buckeye Lane," or more commonly the "Lane."
The college had been planted literally in the wilderness
by its founders, at a time when Montgomery,
for all its dignity as the seat of the county court, was
the most colorless of Hoosier hamlets, save only as
the prevailing mud colored everything. Buckeye
Lane was orig
Table of Contents
I My LADY OF THE CONSTELLATIONS ? I; II SYLVIA GOES VISITISG 20; III A SMALL DINNER AT MRS OWEN'S · 39; IV lE LEARN MORE OF SYLVIA 62; V INTRODUCING MR DANIEL HARWOOD ? ? 79; VI HOME LIFE OF HOOSIER STATES~'lEN 89; VII SYLVIA AT LAKE VAUPEGAN ? 113; VIII SILK STOCKINGS AND BLUE OVERALLS 136; IX DANIEL HARWOOD RECEIVES AN OFFER · 152; X IN THE BOORDMAN BUILDING 168; Xl THE MAP ABOVE BASSETT'S DESK ? · 193; XII BLURRED Vnmows 0 212; XIII THE VAYS OF MARIAN · 225; XIV THE PASSING OF ANDREW KELTON 246; XV A SURPRISE AT TUE COUNTRY CLUB · 257; XVI "STOP, LOOK, LISTEN" 271; XVII A STROLL ACROSS TUE CAMPUS · 288; XVIII THE KINGDOMS OF T« less