Thurston of Orchard Valley
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Bindloss Harold. Thurston of Orchard Valley
CHAPTER I "THURSTON'S FOLLY"
CHAPTER II. A DISILLUSION
CHAPTER III. GEOFFREY'S FIRST CONTRACT
CHAPTER IV. GEOFFREY MAKES PROGRESS
CHAPTER V. THE LEGENDS OF CROSBIE GHYLL
CHAPTER VI. MILLICENT'S REWARD
CHAPTER VII. THE BREAKING OF THE JAM
CHAPTER VIII. A REST BY THE WAY
CHAPTER IX. GEOFFREY STANDS FIRM
CHAPTER X. SAVINE'S CONFIDENCE
CHAPTER XI. AN INSPIRATION
CHAPTER XII. GEOFFREY TESTS HIS FATE
CHAPTER XIII. A TEST OF LOYALTY
CHAPTER XIV. THE WORK OF AN ENEMY
CHAPTER XV. A GREAT UNDERTAKING
CHAPTER XVI. MILLICENT TURNS TRAITRESS
CHAPTER XVII. THE INFATUATION OF ENGLISH JIM
CHAPTER XVIII. THE BURSTING OF THE SLUICE
CHAPTER XIX. THE ABDUCTION OF BLACK CHRISTY
CHAPTER XX. UNDER THE STANLEY PINES
CHAPTER XXI. REPARATION
CHAPTER XXII. A REPRIEVE
CHAPTER XXIII. THE ULTIMATUM
CHAPTER XXIV. AN UNEXPECTED ALLY
CHAPTER XXV. MILLICENT'S REVOLT
CHAPTER XXVI. A RECKLESS JOURNEY
CHAPTER XXVII. MRS. SAVINE SPEAKS HER MIND
CHAPTER XXVIII. LESLIE STEPS OUT
CHAPTER XXIX. A REVELATION
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It was a clear cold night when Geoffrey Thurston met Captain Franklin, who held certain sporting rights in the vicinity, at the place agreed upon. The captain had brought with him several amateur assistants and stablehands besides two stalwart keepers. Greeting Thurston he said:
"Very good of you to help me! Our local constable is either afraid or powerless, and I must accordingly allow Black Jim's rascals to sweep my covers or take the law into my own hands. It is the pheasants he is after now, and he'll start early so as to get his plunder off from the junction by the night mail, and because the moon rises soon. We had better divide, and you might come with Evans and me to the beeches while the others search the fir spinney."
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Janet Austin was frail and worn by pain. Her pale face flushed a little as the man suddenly stooped and touched her forehead with his lips.
"God bless you for your kindly heart," he said. "A ruined man has very few friends, and many acquaintances are waiting to convince him that his downfall is the result of his own folly, but" – and he straightened his wiry frame, while his eyes glinted – "they have not seen the end, and even if beaten, there is satisfaction in a stubborn, single-handed struggle."
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