CHAPTER

  1. [In Vain—in Vain]
  2. [Beyond Seas]
  3. [West and East]
  4. [Enlightenment]
  5. [Marriage not a la Mode]
  6. [A Split at Last]
  7. [New Ways of Life]
  8. [In a Northern Village]
  9. [A Babble o' Green Fields: the End]

STAND FAST, CRAIG-ROYSTON!

CHAPTER I.

IN VAIN—IN VAIN.

One evening Mr. Courtnay Fox, the London correspondent of the Edinburgh Chronicle, was as usual in his own room in the office in Fleet-street, when a card was brought to him.

"Show the gentleman up," said he to the boy.

A couple of seconds thereafter Vincent Harris made his appearance.

"Mr. Fox?" said he, inquiringly.

The heavy-built journalist did not rise to receive his visitor; he merely said—