Thurston of Orchard Valley

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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