Category: Adventure
The afternoon was still very warm, but a grey mist, drifting from the Irish Channel and sailing eastward over the low-lying Island of Anglesea, was beginning to scatter a thin penetrating drizzle on the driver of the caravan.
The young man of the caravan was now thoroughly convinced that one of two things must be true, either that William Jones had been instructed to keep a watch upon him, or that he...
6. CHAPTER VI.--ALSO CONCLUDES WITH A KISS.When Matt awoke the next morning, the first thing she did was to look around for her Sunday clothes, which on retiring to rest she had carefully placed beside her bed. They were...
8. CHAPTER VIII.--THE DEVIL’S CAULDRON.It so happened that the young man of the caravan had two considerable faults. The first fault my reader has, no doubt, already guessed--he was constitutionally lazy. The second...
2. CHAPTER II.--LEAVES FROM A YOUNG GENTLEMAN’S JOURNAL.Before setting forth on this memorable pilgrimage to nowhere, I promised a certain friend of mine, in literary Bohemia, to keep notes of my adventures, with a view to future pub...
3. CHAPTER III.--MATT MAKES HER FIRST APPEARANCE.Eureka! I have had an adventure at last; and yet, after all, what am I talking about? It is no adventure at all, but only a commonplace incident. This is how it happened.
7. CHAPTER VII.--MATT GROWS MATRIMONIAL.That night the young man of the caravan had curious dreams, and throughout them all moved, like a presiding fairy, Matt of Abertaw. Sometimes he was wandering on stormy shores,...
14. CHAPTER XIV.--A BRIDAL PARTY AND A LITTLE SURPRISE.A week passed away. The shadow of the caravan no longer fell on the green meadow by the lake, and the straggling population of Aberglyn, unsuspicious of foul play, had already f...
5. CHAPTER V.--CONCLUDES WITH A KISS.Not far from the spot where William Jones had landed, and removed some little distance from the deserted village with its desolate main street and roofless habitations, there st...
4. CHAPTER IV.--INTRODUCES WILLIAM JONES AND HIS FATHER.Our story is now bound to follow; in the footsteps of Matt, who, in quitting the presence of her artist-friend, walked rapidly along the sand-encumbered road in the direction of...
10. CHAPTER X.--MYSTERIOUS BEHAVIOUR OF THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN.About this time Matt noticed a curious change come over her artist friend. He was more thoughtful, and consequently less entertaining. Often when she appeared and began chatting...
1. CHAPTER I.--FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE CARAVAN.The afternoon was still very warm, but a grey mist, drifting from the Irish Channel and sailing eastward over the low-lying Island of Anglesea, was beginning to scatter a thin p...
13. CHAPTER XIII.--THE CARAVAN DISAPPEARS.Several days passed away, during which William Jones showed a strange and significant affection for his own fireside. He went out a little in the sunlight; but directly night ca...
15. CHAPTER XV.--THE “MURDERED” MAN!Monk had strong nerves, but he could not prevent himself from uttering a wild cry of horror and wonder. At the same moment, Matt went to the young man’s side, and with an air of...
11. CHAPTER XI.--BURIED!It is not my purpose to describe the interview which took place between my hero and Mr. Monk. Suffice it to say that when the young man again emerged from the gloomy shadows of...
12. CHAPTER XII.----WILLIAM JONES IS SERIOUS.The two men walked together through the darkness as far as the door of William Jones’s hut; then they parted. Mr. Monk struck across the sand-hills towards his own home, while J...