Chapter I: Front Matter

HEMPFIELD

_A Novel_

By DAVID GRAYSON

Author of "Adventures in Contentment," "Adventures in Friendship," "The Friendly Road"

_Illustrated by Thomas Fogarty_

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1915

_Copyright, 1915, by_ DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. I Discover the Printing-office 3
II. I Step Boldly into the Story 23
III. Anthy 37
IV. Enter Mr. Ed Smith 51
V. Nort 71
VI. A Man to Help Fergus 83
VII. Phaeton Drives the Chariot of the _Star_ 101
VIII. Nort and Anthy 118
IX. A Letter to Lincoln 123
X. The Wonderful Day 133
XI. In Which Great Plans Are Evolved, and There Is a
Surprising Event 151
XII. The Explosion 171
XIII. Anthy Takes Command 190
XIV. We Begin the Subjugation of Nort 204
XV. I Get Better Acquainted with Anthy 222
XVI. The Old Captain Comes into His Own 228
XVII. In Which Certain Deep Matters of the Heart Are Presented 236
XVIII. Nort Sniffs 240
XIX. Fergus's Favourite Poem 250
XX. The Celebration 260
XXI. Starlight 270
XXII. Fergus and Nort 275
XXIII. The Battle 289
XXIV. Two Letters 300
XXV. The Flying machine 305
XXVI. The Return of the Prodigal 312
XXVII. Fergus MacGregor Goes to the Hills 321

ILLUSTRATIONS

"Yes, surrendered. Haven't you sent for money? Haven't you
given up? Aren't you trying to run away?" _Frontispiece in color_

Ed's innocent suggestion of a house-cleaning was taken by
Fergus as a deadly affront 68

John Bass's blacksmith shop 76

He pictured himself sitting in the quiet study of the
minister, looking sad, sad ... 78

What a thing is youth! That sunny morning in Hempfield Nort
thought that he was drinking the uttermost dregs of life--and
yet, somehow, he was able to stand a little aside and enjoy
it all 80

"Well!" exclaimed Nort, drawing a long breath, "I never
imagined it would feel so good to be orfunts" 104

She turned around quickly--but there was no one there to see 128

After that she opened her heart more and more to me--a little
here, a little there 224

"David, I saw a face looking in at that window" 286

_Illustrations in Text_

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It sat there in its garden and watched with mild interest the
hasty world go by 11

A very lonely little girl, sitting at a certain place on the
third step from the bottom of the stairs 40

The home of her girlhood seemed dreadfully shabby, small, and
old-fashioned 42

I soon found that every one else in the office, Anthy
included, had begun to be interested in Nort 91

"I tell you, Miss Doane," said Nort, explosively, "the only
way to make a success of the _Star_ is to publish the truth
about Hempfield----" 169

"Practical!" he exploded. "You are a blackguard, sir! You are
a scoundrel, sir!" 185

The old Captain was perfect. He was a very pattern of
gallantry 268

"Toys! Mere circus tricks to take in fools!" 310

"I couldn't stay away another minute. I had to know what the
old Captain said and did when the flying machine came to
Hempfield" 314

Fergus stuck his small battered volume of Robert Burns's
poems in his pocket--and going out of the back door struck
out for the hills 332

HEMPFIELD