Chapter I: Front Matter

WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT

For a short space Mr. Riley forsook the white for the red rose,
and wrote _The Lady of the Lawn_ as a result. He has now
definitely returned to his own country, and in his new novel is
told the story of Maniwel Drake, who has lost an arm; but
maintains his cheerful and genial nature, and Baldwin Briggs,
whose motto is “All for my-sen.”

The story deals with one of those contrasts of conflicting
personalities that Mr. Riley loves to draw. There are dramatic
episodes as well as character studies, and the local colour that
Mr. Riley loves to introduce. Above all there blows through the
book the breath of the Moors, without which a Riley book would
not be a Riley book.

=_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_=

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MEN OF
MAWM

BY
W. RILEY

HERBERT JENKINS LIMITED
3 YORK STREET, ST. JAMES’S
LONDON, S.W.1 ❦ ❦ MCMXXII

_Printed in Great Britain by Love & Malcomson, Ltd._
_London and Redhill._

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. IN WHICH INMAN ENTERS MAWM 7
II. INMAN RECEIVES A COLD RECEPTION AND SOME
INFORMATION 17
III. MANIWEL DRAKE MAKES A SUGGESTION 27
IV. THE WOMAN ENTERS WITH THE SERPENT 37
V. JAGGER DRAKE SETS HIS TEETH 48
VI. BALDWIN’S SCAFFOLDING GIVES WAY AND ALSO HIS
RESERVE 60
VII. NANCY SPEAKS HER MIND 69
VIII. NANCY QUESTIONS HER HEART AND MANIWEL
QUESTIONS HIS SON 80
IX. ONE LOVER WALKS OUT AND ANOTHER WALKS IN 91
X. THE COMPANY AT THE “PACKHORSE” IS INVITED TO
DRINK A HEALTH 101
XI. THE CONDITIONS ARE WINTRY 110
XII. BALDWIN’S SKY BECOMES SLIGHTLY OVERCAST 121
XIII. INMAN PROVES HIMSELF COMPETENT 131
XIV. JOHN CLEGG IS “WANTED” AND MANIWEL ISN’T 141
XV. THE VILLAGERS DISCUSS THE DISASTER 150
XVI. INMAN SHOWS THE SUBTLETY OF A VERY VENOMOUS
SERPENT 160
XVII. NANCY’S BABY IS BORN AND JAGGER LOSES HIS
TEMPER 170
XVIII. BALDWIN ALLOWS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SLIP 179
XIX. THE BILL OF SALE IS COMPLETED 190
XX. THERE IS A SENSATIONAL ROBBERY 202
XXI. IN WHICH EVENTS MOVE QUICKLY 210
XXII. BALDWIN FINDS NEW LODGINGS 221
XXIII. NANCY IS OVERWHELMED 231
XXIV. INMAN’S POPULARITY IS SEEN TO WAVER 241
XXV. NANCY DISCUSSES THE SITUATION WITH JAGGER 250
XXVI. MANIWEL LETS JAGGER INTO A SECRET 260
XXVII. NANCY PLAYS THE PART OF DETECTIVE 269
XXVIII. MANIWEL AND JAGGER JOIN IN THE GAME 280
XXIX. THE TABLES ARE TURNED MORE THAN ONCE 290
XXX. SWITHIN TELLS HIS STORY 300
XXXI. WE TAKE LEAVE OF THE MEN OF MAWM 309

MEN OF MAWM