CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I.— | At Stair House, near Edinburgh, in 1768 | [ 1] |
| II.— | I go on a cruise and find a hidden treasure | [ 15] |
| III.— | The treasure becomes mine, but is claimed by its owner | [ 29] |
| IV.— | Enter Nancy Stair | [ 41] |
| V.— | I make the acquaintance of a strange child | [ 53] |
| VI.— | Nancy begins her study of the law | [ 61] |
| VII.— | I take Nancy's education in hand | [ 74] |
| VIII.— | The daft days | [ 86] |
| IX.— | Danvers becomes better acquainted with Nancy | [ 105] |
| X.— | Nancy visits his Grace of Borthwicke | [ 124] |
| XI.— | Danvers Carmichael makes a proposal | [ 142] |
| XII.— | I meet a great man | [ 159] |
| XIII.— | The duke visits Stair for the first time | [ 166] |
| XIV.— | Nancy meets her rival | [ 174] |
| XV.— | Concerning Danvers Carmichael and his Grace of Borthwicke | [ 185] |
| XVI.— | Nancy Stair arranges matters | [ 204] |
| XVII.— | "The swap o' rhyming ware" | [ 213] |
| XVIII.— | I go down to Mauchline | [ 232] |
| XIX.— | The quarrel between Danvers and Nancy | [ 241] |
| XX.— | Danvers gives us a great surprise | [ 259] |
| XXI.— | The Allisons' ball and that which followed it | [ 268] |
| XXII.— | A strange meeting | [ 286] |
| XXIII.— | A false rumor causes trouble | [ 298] |
| XXIV.— | The murder | [ 307] |
| XXV.— | The trial | [ 324] |
| XXVI.— | The defense | [ 351] |
| XXVII.— | The mists all cleared away | [ 361] |
NANCY STAIR
CHAPTER I
AT STAIR HOUSE, NEAR EDINBURGH, IN 1768
By reason of a breakneck ride through the Pentlands, I entered the dining-room at Stair very late one morning to find Huey MacGrath in a state of deepest gloom waiting to serve my breakfast.
"Good morning, Huey," I said, opening The Glasgow Sentinel which had come by the post.
"Good morning, my lord," he returned, in a grudging tone.