Harding of Allenwood
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Bindloss Harold. Harding of Allenwood
CHAPTER I. THE PIONEERS
CHAPTER II. PORTENTS OF CHANGE
CHAPTER III. AT THE FORD
CHAPTER IV. THE OPENING OF THE RIFT
CHAPTER V. THE SPENDTHRIFT
CHAPTER VI. THE MORTGAGE BROKER
CHAPTER VII. AN ACCIDENT
CHAPTER VIII. AN UNEXPECTED ESCAPE
CHAPTER IX. A MAN OF AFFAIRS
CHAPTER X. THE CASTING VOTE
CHAPTER XI. THE STEAM PLOW
CHAPTER XII. THE ENEMY WITHIN
CHAPTER XIII. THE TRAITOR
CHAPTER XIV. A BOLD SCHEME
CHAPTER XV. HARVEST HOME
CHAPTER XVI. THE BRIDGE
CHAPTER XVII. A HEAVY BLOW
CHAPTER XVIII. COVERING HIS TRAIL
CHAPTER XIX. THE BLIZZARD
CHAPTER XX. A SEVERE TEST
CHAPTER XXI. THE DAY OF RECKONING
CHAPTER XXII. THE PRICE OF HONOR
CHAPTER XXIII. A WOMAN INTERVENES
CHAPTER XXIV. A GREAT TRIUMPH
CHAPTER XXV. THE REBUFF
CHAPTER XXVI. DROUGHT
CHAPTER XXVII. THE ADVENTURESS
CHAPTER XXVIII. FIRE AND HAIL
CHAPTER XXIX. A BRAVE HEART
CHAPTER XXX. THE INHERITANCE
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The moon was above the horizon when Kenwyne pulled up his horse to a walk opposite Allenwood Grange. The view from this point always appealed to the artist in Kenwyne. The level plain was broken here by steep, sandy rises crowned with jack-pines and clumps of poplar, and a shallow lake reached out into the open from their feet. A short distance back from its shore, the Grange stood on a gentle slope, with a grove of birches that hid the stables and outbuildings straggling up the hill behind.
As Kenwyne saw it in the moonlight across the glittering water, the house was picturesque. In the center rose a square, unpretentious building of notched logs; but from this ship-lap additions, showing architectural taste, stretched out in many wings, so that, from a distance, the homestead with its wooded back-ground had something of the look of an old English manor house. It was this which made the colonists of Allenwood regard it with affection. Now it was well lighted, and the yellow glow from its windows shone cheerfully across the lake.
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"Do you admire modern methods?" somebody asked. "If you do, you'd better study what things are coming to in America and England. There is not a hired man at Allenwood who is not on first-rate terms with his master; do you want to under-pay and over-drive them or, on the other hand, to have them making impossible demands, and playing the mischief by a harvest strike? I agree with our respected leader that we don't want to change."
"But tell us about these intruders," Mowbray said to Kenwyne. "What sort of men are they?"
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