SUSAN CLEGG and Her Friend MRS. LATHROP By ANNE WARNER Author of "A Woman's Will," etc. BOSTON Little, Brown, and Company 1904 Copyright, 1903, 1904, By THE CENTURY COMPANY. Copyright, 1904, By LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY. THE UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE, U.S.A. PREFATORY NOTE The first four chapters of "Susan Clegg and her Friend Mrs. Lathrop" appeared in "The Century Magazine" as separate stories during the past year. They have been revised and partly rewritten for book publication, and "The Minister's Vacation," never before printed, has been added. Miss Clegg and her friend Mrs. Lathrop, as well as the other characters in the book, and the scenes in which they figure, are wholly imaginary. Contents The Marrying of Susan Clegg Miss Clegg's Adopted