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Title: The Hillman

Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim

Illustrator: George Avison

Release Date: October 5, 2010 [EBook #34035]

Language: English

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THE HILLMAN

[Illustration: What followed came like a thunder-clap.
FRONTISPIECE. _See page 304._]

The Hillman

By E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM

Author of "The Kingdom of The Blind"
"Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo," Etc.

[Illustration]

WITH FRONTISPIECE
By GEORGE AVISON

A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York
Published by Arrangement with LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY

_Copyright, 1917_,
BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

_All rights reserved_

Published, January, 1917
Reprinted, January, 1917 (twice)
February, 1917 (twice)
March, 1917; April, 1917

THE HILLMAN

I

Louise, self-engrossed, and with a pleasant sense of detachment from the
prospective inconveniences of the moment, was leaning back among the
cushions of the motionless car. Her eyes, lifted upward, traveled past
the dimly lit hillside, with its patchwork of wall-enclosed fields, up
to where the leaning clouds and the unseen heights met in a misty sea of
obscurity.

The moon had not yet risen, but a faint and luminous glow, spreading
like a halo about the topmost peak of that ragged line of hills,
he