# Two secrets, and, A man of his word

Author: Stretton, Hesba, 1832-1911; Hiley, F. E. (Francis Ernest), 1878-1965 [Illustrator]; Lucas, Sydney Seymour, 1878-1954 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75676

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Two+secrets%2C+and%2C+A+man+of+his+word+Stretton&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

IF you take a railway map of England and Wales, you will see that, in spite of its close network of railroads, meeting and crossing in all directions, there are still many tracts of country where the villages must be several miles from any station. In these out-of-the-way spots life is more at a standstill now than even in the days when stage-coaches and wagons were wont to run from town to town, taking the villages in their route, and carrying with them the common gossip of a whole neighbourhood. Twenty-five or thirty years ago, before the railway system was as fully developed as it is at present, but when it had already given a death-blow to the old coaching business, many a village was...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/two-secrets-and-a-man-of-his-word-75676/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/two-secrets-and-a-man-of-his-word-75676/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/two-secrets-and-a-man-of-his-word-75676/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/two-secrets-and-a-man-of-his-word-75676/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/two-secrets-and-a-man-of-his-word-75676/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/two-secrets-and-a-man-of-his-word-75676/chapters/1/index.md)