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"There's some trick in it, Frank," he said vehemently, as he hurried his friend along with him, on their way back to the house. "There's some underhand trick in it, and I want to know what it means. I tell you, we must get the keepers, and go up the hill at once, and see what...
The next morning was the very perfection of a September morning, clear, and crisp, and still; there was just enough wind to lift away the lazy blue smoke from the cottage chimne...
3. CHAPTER III.Now, among the numerous undertakings on which the young proprietress of Lochgarra had set her heart was the establishment of a Public Reading-room and Free Library; and to that...
2. CHAPTER II."What can I do, Kaethchen? What can I do?" she was saying, in accents almost of despair; and in her agitation she was walking up and down before the windows, glancing out from t...
5. CHAPTER V.All things appeared to be going well at Lochgarra: Mary was radiant and jubilant, and would pay no heed to Kaethchen's underhand jibes and warnings. Her numerous schemes were th...
8. CHAPTER VIII.All that day the gale did not abate in fury; nor yet on the next; and even on the third day Gilleasbuig Mor still hesitated about trying to get back to Lochgarra, for the sea wa...
1. CHAPTER I."There's some trick in it, Frank," he said vehemently, as he hurried his friend along with him, on their way back to the house. "There's some underhand trick in it, and I want t...
6. CHAPTER VI."Kaethchen," she said, one morning, "the proofs of the photographs should come to-day, and if they turn out well I mean to have the whole of them enlarged, every one of them, to...
7. CHAPTER VII.It was early morning out at Heimra; the sky comparatively clear as yet, though there was a squally look about the flying rags of cloud; the sea obviously freshening up, and alre...
9. CHAPTER IX.The big steamer was slowly and cautiously making in for Lochgarra Bay--slowly and cautiously, for though the harbour is an excellent one after you are in it, the entrance is som...