Wastralls
A Novel
By
C. A. Dawson-Scott
Author of
"The Story of Anna Beames"
"Mrs. Noakes" etc.
London
William Heinemann
London: William Heinemann, 1918
DEDICATED TO
ALICE TIPPETT
TO WHOSE KIND HELP ON MANY A SUNDAY
AFTERNOON I OWE THE WEST-
COUNTRY TALK
PROLOGUE
CHAPTER I
Trevorrick River was but a little stream to have fretted so deep a cleft between the hills as that which sloped from the main road of Tregols parish to the sea. From the source to the engulfing sands was barely a mile, and the twinkling waters, if full and fierce in winter, showed a summer fear of their own broad stepping-stones. Nevertheless the sharp declivities, the juttings of rock, even the shelves and crags and walls of Dark Head, had been formed by the gnawing of this tiny but persistent flow.