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John Buchan. Castle Gay
Castle Gay
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I
TELLS OF A RUGBY THREE-QUARTER
CHAPTER II
INTRODUCES A GREAT MAN IN ADVERSITY
CHAPTER III
THE BACK HOUSE OF THE GARROCH
CHAPTER IV
THE RECONNAISSANCE OF CASTLE GAY
CHAPTER V
INTRODUCES A LADY
CHAPTER VI
THE TROUBLES OF A PRIVATE SECRETARY
CHAPTER VII
BEGINNING OF A GREAT MAN'S EXILE
CHAPTER VIII
CASIMIR
CHAPTER IX
THE FIRST DAY OF THE HEJIRA—THE INN AT WATERMEETING
CHAPTER X
THE SECOND DAY OF THE HEJIRA—THE FORD CAR
CHAPTER XI
THE TROUBLES OF A JOURNALIST
CHAPTER XII
PORTAWAY—THE GREEN TREE
CHAPTER XIII
PORTAWAY—RED DAVIE
CHAPTER XIV
PORTAWAY—ALISON
CHAPTER XV
DISAPPEARANCE OF MR CRAW
CHAPTER XVI
ENEMY'S COUNTRY
CHAPTER XVII
JAIKIE OPENS HIS COMMUNICATIONS
CHAPTER XVIII
SOLWAY SANDS
CHAPTER XIX
MR CRAW IS MASTER IN HIS OWN HOUSE
CHAPTER XX
VALEDICTORY
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John Buchan
Published by Good Press, 2021
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"You'll want to have the last news," he said. "Bill's getting on grand in Australia. He's on his own wee farm in what they call a group settlement, and his last letter says that he's gotten all the roots grubbed up and is starting his first ploughing, and that he's doing fine with his hens and his dairy cows. That's the kind of job for Bill—there was always more muscle than brains in him, but there's a heap of common sense.... Napoleon's in a bank in Montreal—went there from the London office last July. He'll rise in the world no doubt, for he has a great head for figures. Peter Paterson is just coming out for a doctor, and he has lifted a tremendous bursary—I don't mind the name of it, but it will see him through his last year in the hospitals. Who would have said that Peter would turn out scientific, and him such a through-other laddie?... But Thomas Yownie is the big surprise. Thomas, you mind, was all for being a pirate. Well, he'll soon be a minister. He had aye a grand voice, and they tell me his sermons would wile the birds from the trees.... That's the lot, except for you and Jaikie. Man, as Chief Die-hard, I'm proud of my command."
Dickson beamed on them affectionately, and they listened with a show of interest, but they did not share his paternal pride. Youth at twenty is full of hard patches. Already to the two young men the world of six years ago and its denizens had become hazy. They were remotely interested in the fates of their old comrades, but no more. The day would come when they would dwell sentimentally on the past: now they thought chiefly of the present, of the future, and of themselves.
