ROBERT LOUIS

STEVENSON

VOLUME TWENTY-ONE
LONDON: PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND
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AND COMPANY LIMITED: WILLIAM
HEINEMANN: AND LONGMANS GREEN
AND COMPANY MDCCCCXII
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CONTENTS

THE STORY OF A LIE
CHAPTER PAGE
I.Introduces the Admiral[3]
II.A Letter to the Papers[8]
III.In the Admiral’s Name[14]
IV.Esther on the Filial Relation[21]
V.The Prodigal Father makes his Début at Home[24]
VI.The Prodigal Father goes on from Strength to Strength[31]
VII.The Elopement[41]
VIII.Battle Royal[50]
IX.In which the Liberal Editor appears as “Deus ex Machinâ”[60]
THE MERRY MEN
I.Eilean Aros[69]
II.What the Wreck had brought to Aros[76]
III.Land and Sea in Sandag Bay[89]
IV.The Gale[100]
V.A Man out of the Sea[112]
OLALLA[127]
HEATHERCAT
PART I.—THE KILLING-TIME
I.Traquairs of Montroymont[177]
II.Francie[182]
III.The Hill-end of Drumlowe[195]
THE GREAT NORTH ROAD
I.Nance at the “Green Dragon”[203]
II.In which Mr. Archer is Installed[210]
III.Jonathan Holdaway[218]
IV.Mingling Threads[223]
V.Life in the Castle[229]
VI.The Bad Half-Crown[233]
VII.The Bleaching-Green[238]
VIII.The Mail Guard[244]
THE YOUNG CHEVALIER
Prologue—The Wine-Seller’s Wife[253]
I.The Prince[263]
FABLES
I.The Persons of the Tale[269]
II.The Sinking Ship[272]
III.The Two Matches[274]
IV.The Sick Man and the Fireman[275]
V.The Devil and the Innkeeper[276]
VI.The Penitent[277]
VII.The Yellow Paint[277]
VIII.The House of Eld[280]
IX.The Four Reformers[286]
X.The Man and his Friend[287]
XI.The Reader[287]
XII.The Citizen and the Traveller[288]
XIII.The Distinguished Stranger[289]
XIV.The Cart-horses and the Saddle-horse[290]
XV.The Tadpole and the Frog[291]
XVI.Something in it[291]
XVII.Faith, Half-faith, and no Faith at all[295]
XVIII.The Touchstone[297]
XIX.The Poor Thing[304]
XX.The Song of the Morrow[310]