One Woman: Being the Second Part of a Romance of Sussex

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ONE WOMAN:
Being the Second Part
of a Romance of Sussex
BY
ALFRED OLLIVANT
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LONDON: GEORGE ALLEN & UNWIN LTD.
RUSKIN HOUSE, 40, MUSEUM STREET, W.C.1
First published in 1921
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
DANNY
OWD BOB
BOY WOODBURN
THE GENTLEMAN
THE ROYAL ROAD

THE BROWN MARE
THE NEXT STEP
THE TAMING OF JOHN BLUNT
TWO MEN
TO
MY COUNTRY
CONTENTS
THE CARRIER'S CART
PART I
DEEPENING DUSK
I   THE HOSTEL
II   COW GAP
III   THE WATCHMAN ON THE HEAD
IV   ALF
V   THE CREEPING DEATH
VI   THE COLONEL LEARNS A SECRET
VII   THE MAN FROM THE NORTH
VIII   THE CHERUB
IX   THE SHADOW OF ROYAL
X   BOBS
XI   THE RUSSET-COATED CAPTAIN
XII   RUTH WAKES
XIII   NIGHTMARE
XIV   SHADOWS
XV   THE LANDLORD
XVI   THE GRANDMOTHER
XVII   THE CHALLENGE
XVIII   A SKIRMISH
XIX   PITCHED BATTLE
XX   THE VANQUISHED
XXI   THUNDER

PART II

TROUBLED DAWN

XXII   THE BETRAYAL

XXIII   THE COLONEL FACES DEFEAT

XXIV   THE PILGRIMS

XXV   RED IN THE MORNING

XXVI   THE AVALANCHE MOVES

XXVII   THE GROWING ROAR

XXVIII   OLD TOWN

XXIX   FOLLOW YOUR LEADER

XXX   THE END OF THE WORLD

XXXI   THE COLONEL

XXXII   THE DAY OF JUDGMENT

XXXIII   BEAU-NEZ

XXXIV   THE STATION

XXXV   IN THE EVENING

XXXVI   RUTH FACES THE STORM

XXXVII   MRS. LEWKNOR

XXXVIII   SUSPENSE

XXXIX   THE VALLEY OF DECISION

XL   VICTORY AND REVENGE

THE COMFORTER

THE CARRIER'S CART

An old-fashioned carrier's cart, such as you may still meet on the roads of Sussex, tilted, one-horsed, and moving at the leisurely pace of a bye-gone age, turned

East at the Turnpike, and made slowly along the LewesBeachbourne road under the northern scarp of the Downs one evening of autumn in 1908. In it, at the back of the driver, were a young man and a young woman, the only passengers, ensconced among hen-coops, flitches of bacon,

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