The Men Who Wrought
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Cullum Ridgwell. The Men Who Wrought
CHAPTER I. THE DANGER
CHAPTER II. A STRANGE MEETING
CHAPTER III. THE MYSTERY
CHAPTER IV. MR. CHARLES SMITH
CHAPTER V. THE LURE
CHAPTER VI. THE OLD MILL COVE
CHAPTER VII. ON THE GREY NORTH SEA
CHAPTER VIII. BORGA
CHAPTER IX. THE FRIENDLY DEEP
CHAPTER X. THE FUTURE
CHAPTER XI. BACK AT DORBY TOWERS
CHAPTER XII. KUHLHAFEN
CHAPTER XIII. NEWS
CHAPTER XIV "KAMERADS"
CHAPTER XV. THE INERADICABLE STRAIN
CHAPTER XVI. ENEMY MOVEMENTS
CHAPTER XVII. THE CROUCH OF THE TIGER
CHAPTER XVIII. FROM BENEATH THE WATERS
CHAPTER XIX. THE TIGER SPRINGS
CHAPTER XX. BAR-LEIGHTON
CHAPTER XXI. ENEMY MOVEMENTS
CHAPTER XXII. A MEANS OF ESCAPE
CHAPTER XXIII. THE WRECK AT DORBY
CHAPTER XXIV. RUXTON ARRIVES AT A GREAT DECISION
CHAPTER XXV. THE SWEETNESS OF LIFE
CHAPTER XXVI. RUXTON WINS A TRICK
CHAPTER XXVII. THE WEEK-END BEGINS
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE WEEK-END
CHAPTER XXIX. THE CLOSE OF THE WEEK-END
CHAPTER XXX. GAZING UPON A NEW WORLD
CHAPTER XXXI. AFTER TWELVE MONTHS
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The peace of the night knocked vainly at the heart of the man as he moved along over the grass-grown cart track, which skirted those fields abutting on the pathway marking the broken line of the lofty Yorkshire cliffs.
The warmth of the July air left him utterly forgetful of the light evening clothes in which he was clad, just as the grass-grown track failed to remind him that the shoes he wore had never been intended for country rambles. The soft sea breeze fanned his cheeks, and the bracing air added vigor of body if it left his mental feelings wholly uninspired.
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The woman's eyes were turned upon the distant horizon again. Their gaze was introspective, and she talked as she thought, regardless for the time of the man beside her.
But he was more mindful. No word of hers was lost upon him. He was marvelling at her depth of understanding, he was marvelling at her simplicity of expression. And, through it all, he was noting and endeavoring to place that suggestion of foreign intonation in her perfect English accent. More and more was this splendid creature becoming an enigma. More and more was he becoming absorbed in her, and more surely was his promise of simple comradeship becoming an impossibility.
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