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  THE HOUSE
  OF HELEN

  CORRA HARRIS




  THE
  HOUSE OF HELEN


  BY

  CORRA HARRIS

  AUTHOR OF “A DAUGHTER OF ADAM,” “THE EYES OF LOVE,”
  “MY SON,” “HAPPILY MARRIED,” “A CIRCUIT RIDER’S
  WIFE,” “THE RECORDING ANGEL,” ETC.
  AND IN COLLABORATION WITH FAITH HARRIS LEECH:
  “FROM SUNUP TO SUNDOWN”

  [Illustration]

  NEW YORK
  GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY




  COPYRIGHT, 1923,
  BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

  [Illustration]


  COPYRIGHT, 1922, 1923,
  BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY


  THE HOUSE OF HELEN. II

  PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA




PART ONE




THE

HOUSE OF HELEN




PART ONE




CHAPTER I


The town of Shannon lay like a wreath flung wide upon the hills above
one of those long, green, fertile valleys to be seen everywhere below
th