E-text prepared by the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) THE QUEEN OF FARRANDALE A Novel BY CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM BY BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1923 BOSTON AND NEW YORK The Riverside Press Cambridge COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY CLARA LOUISE BURNHAM ALL RIGHTS RESERVED The Riverside Press CAMBRIDGE · MASSACHUSETTS PRINTED IN THE U.S.A. The Riverside Press CONTENTS The Ne’er-do-well For Carol An Introduction A Bobbed Head Mrs. Lumbard Visiting the Sick At Ross Graham’s