The lonely plough

by Constance Holme

MILLS & BOON, LIMITED
49 RUPERT STREET
LONDON, W.

Published 1914

TO
THE PEACE-RULERS

CONTENTS

CHAP.	PAGE
I	ACROSS THE DUB	[ 1]
II	THE GREEN GATES OF VISION:—I. DUSK	[ 12]
III	TROUBLE	[ 26]
IV	THE TROUBLE SHAPING	[ 42]
V	THE TOOL	[ 50]
VI	HAMER’S HUT	[ 54]
VII	THE TROUBLE COMING.—THE GREEN GATES OF VISION:—II. MORNING	[ 63]
VIII	NEW WINE IN OLD BOTTLES	[ 77]
IX	THE UPPER AND THE NETHER STONES	[ 89]
X	TERROR BY NIGHT	[ 102]
XI	THE TROUBLE COMING.—THE GREEN GATES OF VISION:—III. MOONLIGHT	[ 106]
XII	THE REAL THINGS	[ 122]
XIII	HAMER’S FIRST TRAM	[ 137]
XIV	THE OLD ORDER	[ 150]
XV	THE BEGINNING OF THE END	[ 175]
XVI	SPURS TO GLORY	[ 184]
XVII	THE GREEN GATES OF VISION:—IV. DARK—THE LONELY PLOUGH	[ 196]
XVIII	HAMER’S SECOND TRAM	[ 203]
XIX	UNDER THE JUNIPER-TREE	[ 216]
XX	WIGGIE’S FIVE MINUTES	[ 232]
XXI	THE TROUBLE COMING	[ 256]
XXII	COMING	[ 266]
XXIII	COME. THE GREEN GATES OF VISION:—V. THE OUTER DARK	[ 275]
XXIV	MOTHERING SUNDAY	[ 296]
XXV	ONE MAN’S WORK	[ 297]
XXVI	HIS SILLY HOME	[ 306]
XXVII	THE GREEN GATES OF VISION:—VI. SWEETHEART-TIME	[ 325]
XXVIII	HAIL AND FAREWELL!	[ 344]

THE LONELY PLOUGH

CHAPTER I
ACROSS THE DUB

He felt very old.

Older than the old face at the table before him, than the office furniture, which had been there before he was born, than his father’s portrait over the desk; older even than the tulip-tree bowing its graceful head to his window. Very old.

They said the tulip-tree blossomed no more than once in a hundred years. It was an ancient tree, biding its time as ancient things may. But Lancaster felt older even than that.