NOT UNDER THE LAW GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL’S Charming and Wholesome Romances The Story of a Whim Re-Creations Tomorrow About This Time The Tryst The City of Fire Cloudy Jewel Exit Betty The Search The Red Signal The Enchanted Barn The Finding of Jasper Holt The Obsession of Victoria Gracen Miranda The Best Man Lo, Michael! Marcia Schuyler Phoebe Deane Dawn of the Morning The Mystery of Mary The Girl from Montana The Big Blue Soldier NOT UNDER THE LAW NOT UNDER THE LAW BY GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL AUTHOR OF “MARCIA SCHUYLER”, “THE CITY OF FIRE”, ETC. GRACE LIVINGSTON HILL PHILADELPHIA & LONDON J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY 1925 COPYRIGHT, 1924 AND 1925, BY THE GOLDEN RULE COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1925, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY PRINTED BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY AT THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PRESS PHILADELPHIA, U. S. A. [5] NOT UNDER THE LAW CHAPTER I The kitchen door stood open wide, and the breath from the meadow blew freshly across Joyce Radway’s hot cheeks and forehead as she passed hurriedly back and forth from the kitchen stove to the diningroom table preparing the evening meal. The It had been a long, hard day and she was very tired. The tears seemed to have been scorching her eyelids since early morning, and because her spirit would not let them out they seemed to have been flowing back into her heart till its beating was almost stopped by the deluge. Somehow it had been the hardest day in all the two weeks since her aunt died; the culmination of all the hard times since Aunt Mary had been taken sick and her son Eugene Massey brought his wife and two children home to live. To begin with, at the breakfast table Eugene had snarled at Joyce for keeping her light burning so long the night before. He told her he couldn’t
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