E TEMPTATION
VII. THE PERAMBULATION OF THE BOUNDARIES
VIII. ROUGH LEE
IX. HOW ROUGH LEE WAS DEFENDED BY NICHOLAS
X. ROGER NOWELL AND HIS DOUBLE
XI. MOTHER DEMDIKE
XII. THE MYSTERIES OF MALKIN TOWER
XIII. THE TWO FAMILIARS
XIV. HOW ROUGH LEE WAS AGAIN BESIEGED
XV. THE PHANTOM MONK
XVI. ONE O'CLOCK!
XVII. HOW THE BEACON FIRE WAS EXTINGUISHED

BOOK THE THIRD.

Hoghton Tower.

I. DOWNHAM MANOR-HOUSE
II. THE PENITENT'S RETREAT
III. MIDDLETON HALL
IV. THE GORGE OF CLIVIGER
V. THE END OF MALKIN TOWER
VI. HOGHTON TOWER
VII. THE ROYAL DECLARATION CONCERNING LAWFUL SPORTS ON THE SUNDAY
VIII. HOW KING JAMES HUNTED THE HART AND THE WILD-BOAR IN HOGHTON
PARK
IX. THE BANQUET
X. EVENING ENTERTAINMENTS
XI. FATALITY
XII. THE LAST HOUR
XIII. THE MASQUE OF DEATH
XIV. "ONE GRAVE"
XV. LANCASTER CASTLE

INTRODUCTION.

The Last Abbot of Whalley.

CHAPTER I.--THE BEACON ON PENDLE HILL.

There were eight watchers by the beacon on Pendle Hill in Lancashire.
Two were stationed on either side of the north-eastern extremity of the
mountain. One looked over the castled heights of Clithero; the woody
eminences of Bowland; the bleak ridges of Thornley; the broad moors of
Bleasdale; the Trough of Bolland, and Wolf Crag; and even brought within
his ken the black fells overhanging Lancaster. The other tracked the
stream called Pendle Water, almost from its source amid the neighbouring
hills, and followed its windings through the leafless forest, until it
united its waters to those of the Calder, and swept on in swifter and
clearer current, to wash the base of Whalley Abbey. But the watcher's
survey did not stop here. Noting the sharp spire of Burnley Church,
relieved against the rounded masses of timber constituting Townley Park;
as well as the entrance of the gloomy mountain gorge, known as the
Grange of Cliviger; his far-reaching gaze passed over Todmorden, and
settled upon the distant summits of Blackstone Edge.

Dreary was the prospect on all sides. Black moor, bleak fell, straggling
forest, intersected with sullen streams as black as ink, with here and
there a small tarn, or moss-pool, with waters of the same hue--these
constituted the chief features of the scene. The whole district was
barren and thinly-populated. Of towns, only Clithero, Colne, and
Burnley--the latter little more th