I [LUTWYCHE'S]
II [MILLIE]
III [THE RIVALS]
IV [THE GUARDIANSHIP OF CAROL MAYNE]
V [A BOER BURYING]
VI [THE FLINGING OF THE GAGE]
VII [IN THE GARRET]
VIII [THE RESCUE]
IX [THE SCANDALISING OF SLABBERT'S POORT]
X [FRANSDALE]
XI [MELICENT'S COUSINS]
XII [THE JARRING ELEMENT]
XIII [LANCE BURMESTER IS CONSCIOUS OF A PERSONALITY]
XIV [THE BREAKING-IN OF MELICENT]
XV [A CLEVESHIRE TEA-PARTY]
XVI [BREAKING BOUNDS]
XVII [A CRISIS AT THE VICARAGE]
XVIII [A NEW HOME]
XIX [AN UNMARKED FESTIVAL]
XX [CAPTAIN BROOKE]
XXI [MIRAGE]
XXII [RECOGNITION]
XXIII [REBELLION]
XXIV [UNREST]
XXV [THE WAY OUT]
XXVI [THE END OF THE FIRST ROUND]
XXVII [THREE MONTHS' TRUCE]
XXVIII [THE GATES OF SPRING ARE OPENED]
XXIX [THE FRIENDSHIP GROWS]
XXX [TREACHERY]
XXXI [REPUDIATION]
XXXII [THE FRANSDALE SPORTS]
XXXIII [CALUMNY]
XXXIV [THE DISCOMFITURE OF OTIS]
XXXV [CONFESSION]
XXXVI [WHAT CHANCED UPON THE MOORS]
XXXVII [THE HOUSE IS BUILT]
THE MAN WHO WON
CHAPTER I
LUTWYCHE'S
"Handsome, were you? 'Tis more than they held,
More than they said. I was ware, and watched.
I was the scapegrace, this rat belled
The cat, this fool got his whiskers scratched."
—ROBERT BROWNING.
The talk had waxed political, and the audience was frankly bored. The man who had been haranguing his mates was hurt at the somewhat too obvious lack of appreciation which his truly democratic sentiments received.
"Ef yer could quit twinin' yerself araound that thar' post a spell, an' listen to a bit o' horse-sense"—he broke off angrily.
"It's usually hoarse when you take the floor, Amurrica," was the surly reply; "but it's blasted little sense I've ever heard come outer your head."
"Ef you was to listen, it 'ud make a powerful deal o' difference to what you heard," snapped Amurrica, whose eloquence was his chief vanity.
"I ain't good at listening," indifferently replied the blond and bearded giant, who was "twinin' hisself araound the post," "onless a man's talkin'; an' that's a fact."