The Pit Town Coronet: A Family Mystery, Volume 1 (of 3)

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Pit Town Coronet, Volume I (of 3), by Charles James Wills
BY CHARLES J. WILLS,
AUTHOR OF
IN THE LAND OF THE LION AND SUN, ETC.
IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. I.
WARD AND DOWNEY, 12, YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON, W.C. 1888
PRINTED BY KELLY AND CO., GATE STREET, LINCOLN'S INN FIELDS, W.C.; AND MIDDLE MILL, KINGSTON-ON-THAMES.
THE PIT TOWN CORONET.
INSCRIBED TO EDMUND YATES, Esq.

THE PIT TOWN CORONET.
Big Reginald Haggard had been exceedingly attentive to the elder of two very pretty girls of the name of Warrender. Both families came from the eastern counties. The Warrenders had inhabited The Warren, or at all events the older portion of the house, for nearly four centuries. They were harmless people. They manfully stuck to their ancestral acres of fat Essex land. The present head of the family farmed the greater part of the estate himself, as his fathers had done before him. Many a Warrender had held the rich living of King's Warren, and the parson, whoever he might be, and the reigning Squire Warrender were always the two greatest men in King's Warren village and parish.