The Master of Stair

by Marjorie Bowen

Published April, 1907

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To Mark Twain

with deep gratitude for the flattering interest

shown by a great man of letters in

the work of a beginner

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CONTENTS

BOOK ONE
CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Ronald Macdonald	[3]
II	The Kiss	[14]
III	Jock O’Breadalbane’s Wife	[24]
IV	Delia Featherstonehaugh	[35]
V	The Folly of Delia	[47]
VI	Hate Meets Hate	[62]
VII	The Poison of the Kiss	[77]
VIII	MacCallum More	[87]
IX	On the Road to London	[98]
X	The King’s Messenger	[108]
XI	The Master of Stair	[119]
XII	The Love of Delia	[131]
XIII	The Master’s Wife	[149]
XIV	The Curse of the Dalrymples	[161]
XV	The Avowal	[174]
XVI	A Lampoon Answered	[183]
XVII	The Bitterness of Death	[195]
XVIII	An Innocent Betrayal	[205]
XIX	The Pact	[217]
XX	On the Verge of Madness	[227]
XXI	William of Orange	[238]
XXII	The Resolution of Despair	[256]
XXIII	James Fitzjames	[261]
XXIV	The Love of Margaret Campbell	[272]
XXV	Glencoe	[284]
BOOK TWO
I	The Reckoning	[309]
II	Forebodings	[318]
III	The Triumphs of the Campbells	[329]
IV	The Lie Accomplished	[335]
V	A Woman’s Victory	[344]
VI	“There was No Massacre in Glencoe”	[364]
Epilogue	The Glen O’ Weeping	[374]

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