A VAGRANT WIFE
BY
FLORENCE WARDEN
AUTHOR OF “DELDEE,” “SCHEHERAZADE,” “A WITCH OF THE HILLS,” ETC.
NEW YORK
INTERNATIONAL BOOK COMPANY
310-318 SIXTH AVENUE
A Vagrant Wife.
BY FLORENCE WARDEN.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
The country town of Beckham was astir. It was a cloudy, changeful Mayafternoon, and the white-capped country lasses who were alighting fromall sorts of strange vehicles at the churchyard gate had to hold uptheir clean cotton frocks with what untutored grace they might, as theytrod the worn, wet flagstones that led up to the church door. Threeor four hundred lads and lasses of Beckham and th