HARRIET AND THE PIPER VOLUME XI

CHAPTER I


Richard Carter had called the place "Crownlands," not to please
himself, or even his wife. But it was to his mother's newly born
family pride that the idea of being the Carters of Crownlands made
its appeal. The estate, when he bought it, had belonged to a
Carter, and the tradition was that two hundred years before it had
been a grant of the first George to the first of the name in
America. Madame Carter, as the old lady liked to be called,
immediately adopted the unknown owner into a vag...