The Revellers

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Tracy Louis. The Revellers

CHAPTER I. QUESTIONINGS

CHAPTER II. STRANGERS, INDEED

CHAPTER III. THE SEEDS OF MISCHIEF

CHAPTER IV. THE FEAST

CHAPTER V “IT IS THE FIRST STEP THAT COUNTS”

CHAPTER VI. WHEREIN THE RED BLOOD FLOWS

CHAPTER VII. GEORGE PICKERING PLAYS THE MAN

CHAPTER VIII. SHOWING HOW MARTIN’S HORIZON WIDENS

CHAPTER IX. THE WILDCAT

CHAPTER X. DEEPENING SHADOWS

CHAPTER XI. FOR ONE, THE NIGHT; FOR ANOTHER, THE DAWN

CHAPTER XII. A FRIENDLY ARGUMENT

CHAPTER XIII. A DYING DEPOSITION

CHAPTER XIV. THE STORM

CHAPTER XV. THE UNWRITTEN LAW

CHAPTER XVI. UNDERCURRENTS

CHAPTER XVII. TWO MOORLAND EPISODES

CHAPTER XVIII. THE SEVEN FULL YEARS

CHAPTER XIX. OUT OF THE MISTS

CHAPTER XX. THE RIGOR OF THE GAME

CHAPTER XXI. NEARING THE END

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Behind lay the remainder of the kitchen garden and an orchard, backed by a strip of meadowland that climbed rapidly toward the free moor with its whins and heather – a far-flung range of mountain given over to grouse and hardy sheep, and cleft by tiny ravines of exceeding beauty.

Across the village street stood some modern iron-roofed buildings, where Bolland kept his prize stock, and here was situated the real approach to the couple of hundred acres of rich arable land which he farmed. The house and rear pastures were his own; he rented the rest. Of late years he had ceased to grow grain, save for the limited purposes of his stock, and had gone in more and more for pedigree cattle.

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“Some of it.”

“Then you shouldn’t do it. If I were your brother, I’d hammer you.”

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