MATT
A Story Of A Caravan
By Robert Buchanan
A New Edition, with a Frontispiece
London: Chatto & Windus
1897
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.—FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE CARAVAN.
CHAPTER II.—LEAVES FROM A YOUNG GENTLEMAN’S JOURNAL.
CHAPTER III.—MATT MAKES HER FIRST APPEARANCE.
CHAPTER IV.—INTRODUCES WILLIAM JONES AND HIS FATHER.
CHAPTER V.—CONCLUDES WITH A KISS.
CHAPTER VI.—ALSO CONCLUDES WITH A KISS.
CHAPTER VII.—MATT GROWS MATRIMONIAL.
CHAPTER VIII.—THE DEVIL’S CAULDRON.
CHAPTER IX.—THE SECRET OF THE CAVE.
CHAPTER X.—MYSTERIOUS BEHAVIOUR OF THE YOUNG GENTLEMAN.
CHAPTER XII.—WILLIAM JONES IS SERIOUS.
CHAPTER XIII.—THE CARAVAN DISAPPEARS.
CHAPTER XIV.—A BRIDAL PARTY AND A LITTLE SURPRISE.
CHAPTER XV.—THE “MURDERED” MAN!
MATT
CHAPTER I.—FIRST GLIMPSE OF THE CARAVAN.
The afternoon was still very warm, but a grey mist, drifting from the Irish Channel and sailing eastward over the low-lying Island of Anglesea, was beginning to scatter a thin penetrating drizzle on the driver of the caravan.
To right and left of the highway stretched a bleak and bare prospect of marshland and moorland, closed to the west by a sky of ever-deepening redness, and relieved here and there by black clumps of stunted woodland. Here and there peeped a solitary farmhouse, with outlying fields of swampy greenness, where lean and spectral cattle were lugubriously grazing; and ever and anon came a glimpse of some lonely lake or tarn, fringed all round with thick sedge