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Title: Elster's Folly

Author: Mrs. Henry Wood

Release Date: October 4, 2005 [EBook #16798]

Language: English

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ELSTER'S FOLLY

A NOVEL BY

MRS. HENRY WOOD

AUTHOR OF "EAST LYNNE," "THE CHANNINGS," "JOHNNY LUDLOW," ETC.

1916

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. By the Early Train

II. Willy Gum

III. Anne Ashton

IV. The Countess-Dowager

V. Jealousy

VI. At the Bridge

VII. Listeners

VIII. The Wager Boats

IX. Waiting for Dinner

X. Mr. Pike's Visit

XI. The Inquest

XII. Later in the Day

XIII. Fever

XIV. Another Patient

XV. Val's Dilemma

XVI. Between the Two

XVII. An Agreeable Wedding

XVIII. The Stranger

XIX. A Chance Meeting

XX. The Stranger Again

XXI. Secret Care

XXII. Asking the Rector

XXIII. Mr. Carr at Work

XXIV. Somebody Else at Work

XXV. At Hartledon

XXVI. Under the Trees

XXVII. A Tete-a-Tete Breakfast

XXVIII. Once more

XXIX. Cross-questioning Mr. Carr

XXX. Maude's Disobedience

XXXI. The Sword slipped

XXXII. In the Park

XXXIII. Coming Home

XXXIV. Mr. Pike on the Wing

XXXV. The Shed razed

XXXVI. The Dowager's Alarm

XXXVII. A Painful Scene

XXXVIII. Explanations

ELSTER'S FOLLY

CHAPTER I.

BY THE EARLY TRAIN.

The ascending sun threw its slanting rays abroad on a glorious August
morning, and the little world below began to awaken into life--the life
of another day of sanguine pleasure or of fretting care.

Not on many fairer scenes did those sunbeams shed their radiance than on
one existing in the heart of England; but almost any landscape will look
beautiful in t