Category: Novels

The Abandoned Farmer

"You need to turn the little chap loose in the country," was the doctor's verdict, given in a low tone that didn't--thank Heaven!--attract Paul's attention, though if the child hadn't been absorbed for the moment in driving a brood of imaginary chickens into an imaginary coop...

Chapters

6. Part 6

I didn't expect to become an expert milker at once, but I knew from observation how to milk, and I went to work with frantic energy. In a calmer frame of mind I might have waite...

10. Part 10

"So _that_ was your motive," she said, with stinging, withering emphasis. "You clutched Mr. Fairman as a miser might clutch his hoard if his house took fire. It wasn't to save h...

4. Part 4

I thought that was the last of Griggs. It was--for nearly two months. By that time my point of view had changed, as the danger of complications receded, so that I sometimes foun...

8. Part 8

Marion rested her cheek against my unyielding shoulder and reassured me on every point in the gentlest, most affectionate manner, though, she knew I would be relieved to hear, I...

11. Part 11

At that moment Paul was leaning over the edge dangling a long string into the well; fishing, I supposed, in my ignorance. For days he had been going about with a dreamy look on...

9. Part 9

At this point I intervened. Peter claimed that his crop of peas had been so destroyed by fowls that it couldn't be harvested; he hadn't actually seen my hens at work, he admitte...

2. Part 2

"It's right next the turn of this road, about half a mile south. No one has lived there for twenty years, but he keeps the house in repair, and I guess it's cleaner than most ho...

12. Part 12

Alas, I could not say! Had I known the particulars of the petty disagreement he mentioned I might have hazarded an admission that he was correct in his surmise, for I find it ea...

7. Part 7

His face assumed a pained and yet forgiving expression, and he regarded the hair broom with intense interest. I waited, as Marion had once waited for me, with the air of being w...

3. Part 3

"Look 'ere, Mr. Carton," he snapped, "wot could be more simpler? W'en there's a man or a woman a-standin' at the door shoutin' to be keerful an' hurry up, an' put this 'ere an'...

5. Part 5

"It doesn't matter so much what you said as the way you said it. However, as you say, Aunt Sophy is coming, and we must eat some of those chickens; so _you_ may face the situati...

1. Part 1

"You need to turn the little chap loose in the country," was the doctor's verdict, given in a low tone that didn't--thank Heaven!--attract Paul's attention, though if the child...

13. Part 13