_A Chance Acquaintance._


BY W. D. HOWELLS.


BOSTON:
JAMES R. OSGOOD AND COMPANY

Late Ticknor & Fields, and Fields, Osgood, & Co.

1873.

University Press: Welch, Bigelow, & Co., Cambridge.




A CHANCE ACQUAINTANCE.




I.

UP THE SAGUENAY.


On the forward promenade of the Saguenay boat which had been advertised
to leave Quebec at seven o'clock on Tuesday morning, Miss Kitty Ellison