Copyright, 1898,
By Dodd, Mead and Company.

University Press:
John Wilson and Son, Cambridge, U.S.A.


CONTENTS
CHAPTERPAGE
IThe Athelings[1]
IICecil and Edgar[23]
IIIThe Lord of Exham[42]
IVThe Dawn of Love[66]
VAnnabel Vyner[81]
VIThe Beginning of the Great Struggle[103]
VIIThe Lost Ring[121]
VIIIWill she choose Evil or Good?[150]
IXA Foolish Virgin[169]
XTrouble comes Unsummoned[193]
XILife comes and goes the Old, Old Way[213]
XIIThe Shadow of Sorrow stretched out[235]
XIIINot Yet[263]
XIVAt the Worst[288]
XVLady of Exham Hall at Last[315]
XVIAfter Twenty Golden Years[341]

I, Thou, and the Other One

CHAPTER FIRST
THE ATHELINGS

The Land is a Land of hills and valleys, and drinketh
water of the rain of heaven.

Beyond Thirsk and Northallerton, through the Cleveland Hills to the sea eastward, and by Roseberry Topping, northward, there is a lovely, lonely district, very little known even at the present day. The winds stream through its hills, as cool and fresh as living water; and whatever beauty there is of mountain, valley, or moorland, Farndale and Westerdale can show it; while no part of England is so rich in those picturesque manor-houses which have been the homes of the same families for twenty generations.