In Memory
OF

"THE GROWLERY."

CONTENTS

CHAP.
[I.]IN THE AVENUE.
[II.]IN THE HOUSEKEEPER'S ROOM.
[III.]THE PHILISTINES.
[IV.]IN THE BALANCE.
[V.]GOING DOWN.
[VI.]DELAY.
[VII.]AMONG THE BEECHES.
[VIII.]GLAMOUR.
[IX.]TIDED OVER.
[X.]DISPOSED OF.
[XI.]AT POYNINGS.
[XII.]CONFERENCE.
[XIII.]THE SHADOW OF DEATH.
[XIV.]THE SHADOW LIGHTENED.
[XV.]IN THE MUIDERSTRAAT.
[XVI.]IDLESSE.
[XVII.]A DILEMMA.
[XVIII.]ON THE DEFENSIVE.
[XIX.]CLEARED UP.
[XX.]ONCE MORE TIDED OVER.
[XXI.]THE AMERICAN LETTERS.
[XXII.]LOOKING OUT ON THE TAUNUS.
[XXIII.]MRS IRETON P. BEMBRIDGE.
[XXIV.]ON THE BALCONY.
[XXV.]THE SWORD OF DAMOCLES.
[XXVI.]RECOGNITION.
[XXVII.]A FIRST APPEAL.
[XXVIII.]DURING THE LULL.
[XXIX.]THE SEVERING OF THE HAIR.
[XXX.]MOVING ON.
[XXXI.]PAUL WARD.
[XXXII.]ANOTHER RECOGNITION.
[XXXIII.]THE FALLING OF THE SWORD.
[XXXIV.]"CRUEL AS THE GRAVE."
[XXXV.]"INFORMATION RECEIVED."
[XXXVI.]AT THE TIDAL TRAIN.
[XXXVII.]"STRONG AS DEATH."

BLACK SHEEP.

[CHAPTER I.]

IN THE AVENUE.

"I'm to keep to the right?"

"Keep on a bearin' to the right, sir, 'cross Watch Common, and down One Ash Hill, and that'll bring you straight on to Poynings, sir! No luggage, sir?"

"None, thank you!"