Chapter I: Front Matter

MISS LOCHINVAR

MISS LOCHINVAR

_A STORY FOR GIRLS_

BY
MARION AMES TAGGART

_Illustrated by
W. L. Jacobs and Bayard F. Jones_

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1902

COPYRIGHT, 1902
BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY

_Published September, 1902_

TO
POLLY AND JO
IN THE WEST.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I.--“YOUNG LOCHINVAR IS COME OUT OF THE WEST” 1

II.--“HE ALIGHTED AT NETHERBY GATE” 13

III.--“SO BOLDLY HE ENTER’D THE NETHERBY HALL” 28

IV.--“AMONG BRIDESMEN AND KINSMEN AND BROTHERS AND ALL” 43

V.--“AND, SAVE HIS GOOD BROADSWORD, HE WEAPONS HAD NONE” 56

VI.--“HE RODE ALL UNARM’D, AND HE RODE ALL ALONE” 71

VII.--“OH, COME YE IN PEACE HERE, OR COME YE IN WAR?” 88

VIII.--“HE STAYED NOT FOR BRAKE AND HE STOPPED NOT
FOR STONE” 102

IX.--“‘THEY’LL HAVE FLEET STEEDS THAT FOLLOW,’ QUOTH
YOUNG LOCHINVAR” 115

X.--“FOR A LAGGARD IN LOVE AND A DASTARD IN WAR” 133

XI.--“THERE NEVER WAS KNIGHT LIKE THE YOUNG LOCHINVAR” 146

XII.--“’TWERE BETTER BY FAR TO HAVE MATCHED OUR FAIR
COUSIN WITH YOUNG LOCHINVAR” 159

XIII.--“‘NOW TREAD WE A MEASURE,’ SAID YOUNG LOCHINVAR” 172

XIV.--“SO FAITHFUL IN LOVE, AND SO DAUNTLESS IN WAR” 188

XV.--“ONE TOUCH TO HER HAND, AND ONE WORD IN HER EAR” 202

XVI.--“HAVE YE E’ER HEARD OF GALLANT LIKE YOUNG
LOCHINVAR?” 216

XVII.--“THERE WAS MOUNTING ’MONG GRAEMES OF THE
NETHERBY CLAN” 233

XVIII.--“WITH A SMILE ON HER LIPS AND A TEAR IN HER EYE” 247

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

FACING PAGE

Janet looked up and down the house which was to
be her home _Frontispiece_

“My dear little niece, you don’t know how glad I am
to see you” 37

The story-telling party 81

“You brutes! To treat a little dog like that!” 106

A ringing cheer announced Jan the victor 124

The impromptu ball began without the loss of a moment 181

“You’re not going to be blind, not one bit!” said Jack 219

The last glimpse of Jan 259

MISS LOCHINVAR