CONTENTS
CHAPTER I — THE FORBIDDEN ROCK
CHAPTER II — THE STORY THE OLD MAN TOLD
CHAPTER VI — CHARLIE WEBSTER ENTERTAINS
CHAPTER VII — COURTNEY APPEARS IN PUBLIC
CHAPTER IX — A MID-OCTOBER DAY
CHAPTER X — THE CHIMNEY CORNER
CHAPTER XI — THANE VISITS TWO HOUSES
CHAPTER XII — WORDS AND LETTEBS
CHAPTER XIII — THE OLD INDIAN TRAIL
CHAPTER XV — THE FACE AT THE WINDOW
CHAPTER XVIII — MR. GILFILLAN IS PUZZLED
CHAPTER XIX — BRINGING UP THE PAST
CHAPTER XX — THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ROSABEL VICK
CHAPTER XXI — OUT OF THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XXII — THE THROWER OF STONES
CHAPTER XXIII — A MESSAGE AND ITS ANSWER
CHAPTER XXIV — AT QUILL'S WINDOW
A young man and an old one sat in the shade of the willows beside the wide, still river. The glare of a hot August sun failed to penetrate the shelter in which they idled; out upon the slow-gliding river it beat relentlessly, creating a pale, thin vapour that clung close to the shimmering surface and dazzled the eye with an ever-shifting glaze. The air was lifeless, sultry, stifling; not a leaf, not a twig in the tall, drooping willows moved unless stirred by the passage of some vagrant bird.
The older man sat on the ground, his back against the trunk of a tree that