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Sir Quixote of the Moors

PREFACE

I. ON THE HIGH MOORS

II. I FARE BADLY INDOORS

III. I FARE BADLY ABROAD

IV. OF MY COMING TO LINDEAN

V. I PLEDGE MY WORD

VI. IDLE DAYS

VII. A DAUGHTER OF HERODIAS

VIII. HOW I SET THE SIGNAL

IX. I COMMUNE WITH MYSELF

X. OF MY DEPARTURE

John Burnet of Barns

BOOK I. TWEEDDALE

I. THE ADVENTURE WHICH BEFELL ME IN THE WOOD OF DAWYCK

II. THE HOUSE OF BARNS

III. THE SPATE IN TWEED

IV. I GO TO THE COLLEGE AT GLASGOW

V. COUSINLY AFFECTION

VI. HOW MASTER GILBERT BURNET PLAYED A GAME AND WAS CHECKMATED

VII. THE PEGASUS INN AT PEEBLES AND HOW A STRANGER RETURNED FROM THE WARS

VIII. I TAKE LEAVE OF MY FRIENDS

IX. I RIDE OUT ON MY TRAVELS AND FIND A COMPANION

BOOK II. THE LOW COUNTRIES

I. OF MY VOYAGE TO THE LOW COUNTRIES

II. I VISIT MASTER PETER WISHART

III. THE STORY OF A SUPPER PARTY

IV. OUR ADVENTURE ON THE ALPHEN ROAD

V. THE FIRST SUNDAY OF MARCH

VI. THE FIRST MONDAY OF MARCH

VII. I SPEND MY DAYS IN IDLENESS

VIII. THE COMING OF THE BRIG SEAMAW

IX. AN ACCOUNT OF MY HOME-COMING

BOOK III. THE HILLMEN

I. THE PIER O’ LEITH

II. HOW I RODE TO THE SOUTH

III. THE HOUSE OF DAWYCK

IV. HOW MICHAEL VEITCH MET HIS END

V. I CLAIM A PROMISE, AND WE SEEK THE HILLS

VI. THE CAVE OF THE COR WATER

VII. HOW TWO OF HIS MAJESTY’S SERVANTS MET WITH THEIR DESERTS

VIII. OF OUR WANDERINGS AMONG THE MOORS OF CLYDE

IX. I PART FROM MARJORY

X. OF THE MAN WITH THE ONE EYE AND THE ENCOUNTER IN THE GREEN CLEUCH

XI. HOW A MILLER STROVE WITH HIS OWN MILL- WHEEL

XII. I WITNESS A VALIANT ENDING

XIII. I RUN A NARROW ESCAPE FOR MY LIFE

XIV. I FALL IN WITH STRANGE FRIENDS

XV. THE BAILLIES OF NO MAN’s LAND

XVI. HOW THREE MEN HELD A TOWN IN TERROR

XVII. OF THE FIGHT IN THE MOSS OF BIGGAR

XVIII. SMITWOOD

BOOK IV. THE WESTLANDS

I. I HEAR NO GOOD IN THE INN AT THE FORDS o’ CLYDE

II. AN OLD JOURNEY WITH A NEW ERRAND

III. THE HOUSE WITH THE CHIPPED GABLES

IV. UP HILL AND DOWN DALE

V. EAGLESHAM

VI. I MAKE MY PEACE WITH GILBERT BURNET

VII. OF A VOICE IN THE EVENTIDE

VIII. HOW NICOL PLENDERLEITH SOUGHT HIS FORTUNE ELSEWHERE

IX. THE END OF ALL THINGS

A Lost Lady of Old Years

BOOK ONE

CHAPTER I. The Birkenshaws of That Ilk and Their Fortunes.

CHAPTER II. How Mr. Francis Birkenshaw Departed His Native City.

CHAPTER III. Forth and Tweed.

CHAPTER IV. A Journey in Late Summer.

CHAPTER V. The Portrait of a Lady.

CHAPTER VI. On the Edinburgh Highway.

CHAPTER VII. Of a Lady on a Grey Horse.

BOOK TWO

CHAPTER VIII. The Journey to the North.

CHAPTER IX. My Lord of Lovat.

CHAPTER X. Waste Places.

CHAPTER XI. The Prince’s Cabinet of War.

CHAPTER XII. After Culloden.

CHAPTER XIII. Crabbed Age and Youth.

CHAPTER XIV. How Mr. Francis Came to the Lowlands Once More.

BOOK THREE

CHAPTER XV. The House of Broughton.

CHAPTER XVI. A Council of Honour.

CHAPTER XVII. A Journey to the South.

CHAPTER XVIII. Of an Interview in an Unlikely Place.

CHAPTER XIX. The Last of the Secretary.

CHAPTER XX. The Death of the Lord Lovat.

CHAPTER XXI. The Temptation of Mr. Francis.

CHAPTER XXII. A Long Leave-Taking.

CHAPTER XXIII. In the Nature of a Postscript.

A Lodge in the Wilderness

PROLOGUE

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

Prester John

Chapter 1. The Man On The Kirkcaple Shore

Chapter 2. Furth! Fortune!

Chapter 3. Blaauwildebeestefontein

Chapter 4. My Journey To The Winter-Veld

Chapter 5. Mr Wardlaw Has A Premonition

Chapter 6. The Drums Beat At Sunset

Chapter 7. Captain Arcoll Tells A Tale

Chapter 8. I Fall In Again With The Reverend John Laputa

Chapter 9. The Store At Umvelos’

Chapter 10. I Go Treasure-Hunting

Chapter 11. The Cave Of The Rooirand

Chapter 12. Captain Arcoll Sends A Message

Chapter 13. The Drift Of The Letaba

Chapter 14. I Carry The Collar Of Prester John

Chapter 15. Morning In The Berg

Chapter 16. Inanda’s Kraal

Chapter 17. A Deal And Its Consequences

Chapter 18. How A Man May Sometimes Put His Trust In A Horse

Chapter 19. Arcoll’s Shepherding

Chapter 20. My Last Sight Of The Reverend John Laputa

Chapter 21. I Climb The Crags A Second Time

Chapter 22. Great Peril And A Great Salvation

Chapter 23. My Uncle’s Gift Is Many Times Multiplied

Salute to Adventurers

Preface

Chapter 1. The Sweet-Singers

Chapter 2. Of a High-Handed Lady

Chapter 3. The Canongate Tollbooth

Chapter 4. Of a Stairhead and a Sea-Captain

Chapter 5. My First Coming to Virginia

Chapter 6. Tells of My Education

Chapter 7. I Become an Unpopular Character

Chapter 8. Red Ringan

Chapter 9. Various Doings in the Savannah

Chapter 10. I Hear an Old Song

Chapter 11. Gravity Out of Bed

Chapter 12. A Word at the Harbour-Side

Chapter 13. I Stumble into a Great Folly

Chapter 14. A Wild Wager

Chapter 15. I Gather the Clans

Chapter 16. The Ford of the Rapidan

Chapter 17. I Retrace My Steps

Chapter 18. Our Adventure Receives a Recruit

Chapter 19. Clearwater Glen

Chapter 20. The Stockade Among the Pines

Chapter 21. A Hawk Screams in the Evening

Chapter 22. How a Fool Must Go His Own Road

Chapter 23. The Horn of Diarmaid Sounds

Chapter 24. I Suffer the Heathen’s Rage

Chapter 25. Events on the Hill-Side

Chapter 26. Shalah

Chapter 27. How I Strove All Night with the Devil

Chapter 28. How Three Souls Found Their Heritage

The Thirty-Nine Steps

Chapter 1. The Man Who Died

Chapter 2. The Milkman Sets Out on his Travels

Chapter 3. The Adventure of the Literary Innkeeper

Chapter 4. The Adventure of the Radical Candidate

Chapter 5. The Adventure of the Spectacled Roadman

Chapter 6. The Adventure of the Bald Archaeologist

Chapter 7. The Dry-Fly Fisherman

Chapter 8. The Coming of the Black Stone

Chapter 9. The Thirty-Nine Steps

Chapter 10. Various Parties Converging on the Sea

Greenmantle

Preface

Chapter 1. A Mission Is Proposed

Chapter 2. The Gathering Of The Missionaries

Chapter 3. Peter Pienaar

Chapter 4. Adventures Of Two Dutchmen On The Loose

Chapter 5. Further Adventures Of The Same

Chapter 6. The Indiscretions Of The Same

Chapter 7. Christmastide

Chapter 8. The Essen Barges

Chapter 9. The Return Of The Straggler

Chapter 10. The Garden-House Of Suliman The Red

Chapter 11. The Companions Of The Rosy Hours

Chapter 12. Four Missionaries See Light In Their Mission

Chapter 13. I Move In Good Society

Chapter 14. The Lady Of The Mantilla

Chapter 15. An Embarrassed Toilet

Chapter 16. The Battered Caravanserai

Chapter 17. Trouble By The Waters Of Babylon

Chapter 18. Sparrows On The Housetops

Chapter 19. Greenmantle

Chapter 20. Peter Pienaar Goes To The Wars

Chapter 21. The Little Hill

Chapter 22. The Guns Of The North

Mr Standfast

Dedication

PART 1

Chapter 1. The Wicket-Gate

Chapter 2. ‘The Village Named Morality’

Chapter 3. The Reflections Of A Cured Dyspeptic

Chapter 4. Andrew Amos

Chapter 5. Various Doings In The West

Chapter 6. The Skirts Of The Coolin

Chapter 7. I Hear Of The Wild Birds

Chapter 8. The Adventures Of A Bagman

Chapter 9. I Take The Wings Of A Dov

Chapter 10. The Advantages Of An Air Raid

Chapter 11.The Valley Of Humiliation

PART 2

Chapter 12. I Become A Combatant Once More

Chapter 13. The Adventure Of The Picardy Chateau

Chapter 14. Mr Blenkiron Discourses On Love And War

Chapter 15. St Anton

Chapter 16. I Lie On A Hard Bed

Chapter 17. The Col Of The Swallows

Chapter 18. The Underground Railway

Chapter 19. The Cage Of The Wild Birds

Chapter 20. The Storm Breaks In The West

Chapter 21. How An Exile Returned To His Own People

Chapter 22. The Summons Comes For Mr Standfast

Huntingtower

Dedication

Prologue

Chapter 1. How A Retired Provision Merchant Felt The Impulse Of Spring

Chapter 2. Of Mr. John Heritage And The Difference In Points Of View

Chapter 3. How Childe Roland And Another Came To The Dark Tower

Chapter 4. Dougal

Chapter 5. Of The Princess In The Tower

Chapter 6. How Mr. Mccunn Departed With Relief And Returned With Resolution

Chapter 7. Sundry Doings In The Mirk

Chapter 8. How A Middle-Aged Crusader Accepted A Challenge

Chapter 9. The First Battle Of The Cruives

Chapter 10. Deals With An Escape And A Journey

Chapter 11. Gravity Out Of Bed

Chapter 12. How Mr. Mccunn Committed An Assault Upon An Ally

Chapter 13. The Coming Of The Danish Brig

Chapter 14. The Second Battle Of The Cruives

Chapter 15. The Gorbals Die-Hards Go Into Action

Chapter 16. In Which A Princess Leaves A Dark Tower And A Provision Merchant Returns To His Family

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