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Mitford Bertram. Fordham's Feud
Fordham's Feud
Table of Contents
"Fordham's Feud"
Chapter One
At First Sight
Chapter Two
Two Unlikes
Chapter Three
Breaking the Ice
Chapter Four
Alma
Chapter Five
Fordham Philosophises
Chapter Six
The Fire of the Live Coal
Chapter Seven
The Storm on the Lake
Chapter Eight
An Inopportune Reminder
Chapter Nine
“Best to be off with the Old Love, Before...”
Chapter Ten
On the Cape au Moine
Chapter Eleven
Peril
Chapter Twelve
Light
Chapter Thirteen
Shadow
Chapter Fourteen
Fordham Proves Accommodating
Chapter Fifteen
In the Val d’Anniviers
Chapter Sixteen
“All in the Blue Unclouded Weather.”
Chapter Seventeen
The Writing on the Wall
Chapter Eighteen
Two Heads Better Than One
Chapter Nineteen
Fighting the Devil with Fire
Chapter Twenty
On The Summit
Chapter Twenty One
The Falling Stone
Chapter Twenty Two
A Weapon to Hand
Chapter Twenty Three
Forging the Link
Chapter Twenty Four
Sir Francis Orlebar
Chapter Twenty Five
Taken at the Rebound
Chapter Twenty Six
One Nail Drives Out Another
Chapter Twenty Seven
The Droop of a Sunshade
Chapter Twenty Eight
”...For His House an Irredeemable Woe.”
Chapter Twenty Nine
“The Sins of the Fathers.”
Chapter Thirty
After Fordham’s Visit
Chapter Thirty One
What was Revealed
Chapter Thirty Two
“That Sting Each Other Here in the Dust.”
Chapter Thirty Three
“For a Brother’s Blood.”
Chapter Thirty Four
At the End of his Life
Chapter Thirty Five
A Day Too Late
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Bertram Mitford
Published by Good Press, 2021
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“Pooh-pooh, child! When you get to my age you’ll have had quite enough of studying your fellow-creatures—more than enough, I’ll lay a guinea. And confound it, we come to this country to study Nature,” added the old man, relapsing into his original growl.
Now this conversation, though carried on in a low tone, was distinctly audible across the table—a fact of which the parties to it should have been aware but for that inconceivable fatuity peculiar to our fellow-countrymen when abroad, a conviction that everybody but themselves is either deaf or afflicted with an opacity of understanding which could hardly exist outside an asylum for imbeciles. So they were not a little surprised and slightly perturbed when Fordham, looking up, said quietly:
