Chapter I: Front Matter

CHRONICLES OF DUSTYPORE

H. S. CUNNINGHAM

DUSTYPORE.

Ballantyne Press,
BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO.
EDINBURGH AND LONDON

CHRONICLES OF DUSTYPORE

_A TALE OF MODERN ANGLO-INDIAN SOCIETY_

BY
H. S. CUNNINGHAM
AUTHOR OF "WHEAT AND TARES," "LATE LAURELS," ETC.

=A New Edition=

LONDON
SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE
1877
[_All rights reserved_]

TO
R. H. W.

You promised me once that, if ever the 'Chronicles of Dustypore' shaped themselves into being, they might be dedicated to you. While writing them my thoughts have often turned to happy hours passed in your society, and pleasant scenes witnessed beneath your roof. If the story has profited thereby, and Felicia has borrowed whatever charms she may possess from those remembered scenes and hours, forgive me, and let me lay the portrait, with all its imperfections, at your feet.

H. S. C.

CONTENTS.

CHAP. PAGE
I. THE SANDY TRACTS 1
II. MAUD 10
III. WAR AT THE SALT BOARD 22
IV. FELICIA 29
V. 'SUTTON'S FLYERS' 38
VI. 'A COMPETITION WALLAH' 46
VII. THE RUMBLE CHUNDER GRANT 58
VIII. GOLDEN DAYS 64
IX. THE FIRST BALL 72
X. THE WOES OF A CHAPERON 83
XI. FRIENDS IN COUNCIL 92
XII. A CHAPTER OF DISCLOSURES 108
XIII. DESVOEUX MAKES THE RUNNING 115
XIV. TO THE HILLS! 126
XV. A DISTRICT OFFICER 141
XVI. ELYSIUM 147
XVII. A BATTLE ROYAL 156
XVIII. GAUDIA IN EXCELSIS 163
XIX. A BRUSH ON THE FRONTIER 175
XX. A LAST RIDE 184
XXI. MAUD'S SECRET 192
XXII. LOVE IS BEGUN 201
XXIII. A STRAY SHOT 208
XXIV. THE GULLY 220
XXV. AN INVALID 235
XXVI. DESVOEUX IN DESPAIR 243
XXVII. CHRISTMAS AT DUSTYPORE 256
XXVIII. MORNING CLOUDS 264
XXIX. THE HILL CAMP 273
XXX. TEMPTATION 281
XXXI. BOLDERO ON GUARD 287
XXXII. A GRASS WIDOW 298
XXXIII. FACILIS DESCENSUS AVERNI 305
XXXIV. BAD TIMES IN THE PLAINS 314
XXXV. AN ELYSIAN PICNIC 320
XXXVI. A KISS 330
XXXVII. ILL NEWS FLY APACE 348
XXXVIII. FLIGHT 359
XXXIX. THE PRODIGAL'S RETURN 366
L'ENVOI 373

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