The Mistress of Shenstone

by Florence L. Barclay

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Contents

CHAPTER		PAGE
I	On the Terrace at Shenstone	[1]
II	The Forerunner	[8]
III	What Peter Knew	[23]
IV	In Safe Hands	[48]
V	Lady Ingleby’s Rest-Cure	[61]
VI	At The Moorhead Inn	[77]
VII	Mrs. O’Mara’s Correspondence	[82]
VIII	In Horseshoe Cove	[105]
IX	Jim Airth To The Rescue	[111]
X	“Yeo Ho, We Go!”	[114]
XI	’Twixt Sea And Sky	[129]
XII	Under The Morning Star	[152]
XIII	The Awakening	[159]
XIV	Golden Days	[170]
XV	“Where Is Lady Ingleby?”	[190]
XVI	Under The Beeches At Shenstone	[205]
XVII	“Surely You Knew?”	[214]
XVIII	What Billy Had To Tell	[220]
XIX	Jim Airth Decides	[231]
XX	A Better Point Of View	[250]
XXI	Michael Veritas	[260]
XXII	Lord Ingleby’s Wife	[271]
XXIII	What Billy Knew	[289]
XXIV	Mrs. Dalmain Reviews the Situation	[303]
XXV	The Test	[327]
XXVI	“What Shall We Write?”	[337]

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The Mistress of Shenstone

CHAPTER I

ON THE TERRACE AT SHENSTONE

Three o’clock on a dank afternoon, early in November. The wintry sunshine, in fitful gleams, pierced the greyness of the leaden sky.