The Light of Scarthey: A Romance Read online

  TABLE OF CONTENTS

  PART I

  SIR ADRIAN LANDALE, LIGHT-KEEPER OF SCARTHEY

  CHAP. PAGE

  I. The Peel of Scarthey 1 II. The Light-Keeper 6 III. Day Dreams: A Philosopher's Fate 16 IV. Day Dreams: A Fair Emissary 32 V. The Awakening 43 VI. The Wheel of Time 53 VII. Forebodings of Gladness 63 VIII. The Path of Wasted Years 70 IX. A Genealogical Epistle 85

  PART II

  "MURTHERING MOLL THE SECOND"

  X. The Threshold of Womanhood 97 XI. A Masterful Old Maid 113 XII. A Record and a Presentment 122 XIII. The Distant Light 136 XIV. The Tower of Liverpool: Master and Man 144 XV. Under the Light 156 XVI. The Recluse and the Squire 174

  PART III

  "CAPTAIN JACK," THE GOLD SMUGGLER

  XVII. Gold Smuggler and the Philosopher 191 XVIII. "Love Gilds the Scene and Woman Guides the Plot" 211 XIX. A Junior's Opinion 224 XX. The Quick and the Dead 244 XXI. The Dawn of an Eventful Day 252 XXII. The Day: Morning 262 XXIII. The Day: Noon 276 XXIV. The Night 294 XXV. The Fight for the Open 309 XXVI. The Three Colours 323 XXVII. Under the Light Again: The Lady and the Cargo 335 XXVIII. The End of the Thread 349 XXIX. The Light Goes Out 364 XXX. Husband and Wife 375 XXXI. In Lancaster Castle 382 XXXII. The One He Loved and the One Who Loved Him 393 XXXIII. Launched on the Great Wave 406 XXXIV. The Gibbet on the Sands 413 XXXV. The Light Rekindled 430

  PART I

  SIR ADRIAN LANDALE, LIGHT-KEEPER OF SCARTHEY

  _We all were sea-swallowed, though some cast again; And by that destiny to perform an act, Whereof what's past is Prologue._

  THE TEMPEST

  THE LIGHT OF SCARTHEY