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      Published by Good Press, 2021

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       PREFACE

       I. WHAT WAS SEEN FROM THE WINDOW OVERLOOKING THE DOWN

       II. SOMEBODY KNOCKS AND COMES IN

       III. THE MILL BECOMES AN IMPORTANT CENTRE OF OPERATIONS

       IV. WHO WERE PRESENT AT THE MILLER’S LITTLE ENTERTAINMENT

       V. THE SONG AND THE STRANGER

       VI. OLD MR. DERRIMAN OF OXWELL HALL

       VII. HOW THEY TALKED IN THE PASTURES

       VIII. ANNE MAKES A CIRCUIT OF THE CAMP

       IX. ANNE IS KINDLY FETCHED BY THE TRUMPET-MAJOR

       X. THE MATCH-MAKING VIRTUES OF A DOUBLE GARDEN

       XI. OUR PEOPLE ARE AFFECTED BY THE PRESENCE OF ROYALTY

       XII. HOW EVERYBODY GREAT AND SMALL CLIMBED TO THE TOP OF THE DOWNS

       XIII. THE CONVERSATION IN THE CROWD

       XIV. LATER IN THE EVENING OF THE SAME DAY

       XV. ‘CAPTAIN’ BOB LOVEDAY OF THE MERCHANT SERVICE

       XVI. THEY MAKE READY FOR THE ILLUSTRIOUS STRANGER

       XVII. TWO FAINTING FITS AND A BEWILDERMENT

       XVIII. THE NIGHT AFTER THE ARRIVAL

       XIX. MISS JOHNSON’S BEHAVIOUR CAUSES NO LITTLE SURPRISE

       XX. HOW THEY LESSENED THE EFFECT OF THE CALAMITY

       XXI. ‘UPON THE HILL HE TURNED’

       XXII. THE TWO HOUSEHOLDS UNITED

       XXIII. MILITARY PREPARATIONS ON AN EXTENDED SCALE

       XXIV. A LETTER, A VISITOR, AND A TIN BOX

       XXV. FESTUS SHOWS HIS LOVE

       XXVI. THE ALARM

       XXVII. DANGER TO ANNE

       XXVIII. ANNE DOES WONDERS

       XXIX. A DISSEMBLER

       XXX. AT THE THEATRE ROYAL

       XXXI. MIDNIGHT VISITORS

       XXXII. DELIVERANCE

       XXXIII. A DISCOVERY TURNS THE SCALE

       XXXIV. A SPECK ON THE SEA

       XXXV. A SAILOR ENTERS

       XXXVI. DERRIMAN SEES CHANCES

       XXXVII. REACTION

       XXXVIII. A DELICATE SITUATION

       XXXIX. BOB LOVEDAY STRUTS UP AND DOWN

       XL. A CALL ON BUSINESS

       XLI. JOHN MARCHES INTO THE NIGHT

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      The present tale is founded more largely on testimony—oral and written—than any other in this series. The external incidents which direct its course are mostly an unexaggerated reproduction of the recollections of old persons well known to the author in childhood, but now long dead, who were eye-witnesses of those scenes. If wholly transcribed their recollections would have filled a volume thrice the length of ‘The Trumpet-Major.’

      Down to the middle of this century, and later, there were not wanting, in the neighbourhood of the places more or less clearly indicated herein, casual relics of the circumstances amid which the action moves—our preparations for defence against the threatened invasion of England by Buonaparte. An outhouse door riddled with bullet-holes, which had been extemporized by a solitary man as a target for firelock practice when the landing was hourly expected, a heap of bricks and clods on a beacon-hill, which had formed the chimney and walls of the hut occupied by the beacon-keeper, worm-eaten shafts