Transcribed from the 1902 Macmillan and Co. “Countess Kate and The Stokesley Secret” edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

COUNTESS KATE

BY
CHARLOTTE M. YONGE

London
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1902

All rights reserved

Richard Clay and Sons, Limited,
LONDON AND BUNGAY

Transferred to Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1901. Reprinted, 1902.

CHAPTER I.

“There, I’ve done every bit I can do! I’m going to see what o’clock it is.”