The Smuggler's Cave

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Smuggler's Cave, by George A. Birmingham
Transcriber's Note:
The book has an extra Chapter XIV following Chapter XV ( i.e. , the chapter sequence is XIV, XV, XIV, XVI). The numbering has been left as printed.
NOVELS BY GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM
HODDER AND STOUGHTON Limited London
The Smugglers' Cave
By GEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM
Hodder and Stoughton Limited London
Made and Printed in Great Britain by Wyman & Sons Ltd., London, Reading and Fakenham
Meant to make easy the task of those who review novels without reading them and to awaken the interest of others who read novels without reviewing them.
This is the story of the Hailey Compton Village Pageant.
Pageants, good and bad, great and small, were commonplace affairs a few years ago. Every summer half a dozen of them were widely advertised and probably a dozen more ran blameless courses unnoticed except by those who took part in them. They were started by enthusiasts, worked up by energetic committees, kept within the bounds of historic possibility by scholarly experts. They came and went, amused a few people, bored a great many and left not a trace of their brief existence behind them.