Sheila Kaye-Smith

CONTENTS

BOOK I

CHAPTER I SPARROW HALL

CHAPTER II SHOVELSTRODE

CHAPTER III IN THE RAIN

CHAPTER IV FATE'S AFTERTHOUGHT

CHAPTER V THE HERO

CHAPTER VI THICK WOODS

CHAPTER VII OVER THE GATES OF PARADISE

CHAPTER VIII BRAMBLETYE

CHAPTER IX SOME PEOPLE ARE HAPPY IN DIFFERENT WAYS

CHAPTER X TONY BACKS AN OUTSIDER

CHAPTER XI DISILLUSION AT SIXTEEN

CHAPTER XII CHILDREN DANCING IN THE DUSK

CHAPTER XIII KEEPING CHRISTMAS

CHAPTER XIV WOODS AT DAWN

CHAPTER XV THE SERMON ON FORGIVENESS

BOOK II

CHAPTER I GLIMPSES AND DREAMS I

CHAPTER II THE LETTER THAT DID NOT COME

CHAPTER III ONLY A BOY

CHAPTER IV FLAMES

CHAPTER V COWSANISH

CHAPTER VI AND I ALSO DREAMED

CHAPTER VII WOODS AT NIGHT

CHAPTER VIII VIGIL

CHAPTER IX AND YOU ALSO SAID ...

CHAPTER X A TOAST

Transcriber's Note:

Obvious typographic errors have been corrected.

THE THREE FURLONGERS

With outstretched arms she rushed to one of them—Page 10

THE THREE
FURLONGERS

BY

SHEILA KAYE-SMITH

AUTHOR OF "SPELL LAND," "ISLE OF THORNS," ETC.

PHILADELPHIA AND LONDON
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY
1914

COPYRIGHT, 1914, BY J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY

ISSUED SEPTEMBER, 1914

COPYRIGHT IN GREAT BRITAIN UNDER THE TITLE
"THREE AGAINST THE WORLD"

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