Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston, 1831-1919 / 2008-06-21 00:00:00
EBOOK SCOTTISH SKETCHES ***
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SHORT STORY
Scottish Sketches
By
AMELIA E. BARR
New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
1898
COPYRIGHT, 1883,
BY
AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY.
CONTENTS
CRAWFORD'S SAIR STRAIT 7
JAMES BLACKIE'S REVENGE 101
FACING HIS ENEMY 163
ANDREW CARGILL'S CONFESSION 241
ONE WRONG STEP 267
LILE DAVIE 309
Crawford's Sair Strait.
CRAWFORD'S SAIR STRAIT.
CHAPTER I.
Alexander Crawford sat reading a book which he studied frequently with
a profound interest. Not the Bible: that volume had indeed its place
of honor in the room, but the book Crawford read was a smaller one; it
was stoutly bound and secured by a brass lock, and it was all in
manuscript. It was his private ledger, and it contained his bank
account. Its contents seemed to give him much solid satisfaction; and
when at last he locked the volume and replaced it in his secretary, it
was with that careful respect which he considered due to the
representative of so many thousand pounds.
He was in a placid mood, and strangely inclined to retrospection.
Thoughtfully fingering the key which locked up the record of his
wealth, he walked to the window and looked out. It was a dreary
prospect of brown moor and gray sea, but Crawford loved it.
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