CHAPTER XXIX. LOVE AND OBEDIENCE 251 CHAPTER XXX. UNA OR DUESSA 260 CHAPTER XXXI. FACILIS DESCENSUS 269 CHAPTER XXXII. WALY, WALY 278 CHAPTER XXXIII. THE RIVER’S BANK 284 CHAPTER XXXIV. NOT IN VAIN 293 CHAPTER XXXV. GRIFF’S BIRD 299 CHAPTER XXXVI. SLACK WATER 307 CHAPTER XXXVII. OUTWARD BOUND 316 CHAPTER XXXVIII. TOO LATE 328 CHAPTER XXXIX. A PURPOSE 337 CHAPTER XL. THE MIDNIGHT CHASE 344 CHAPTER XLI. WILLS OLD AND NEW 350 CHAPTER XLII. ON A SPREE 357 CHAPTER XLIII. THE PRICE 364 CHAPTER XLIV. PAYING THE COST 371 CHAPTER XLV. ACHIEVED 378 CHAPTER XLVI. RESTITUTION 385 CHAPTER XLVII. THE FORDYCE STORY 392 CHAPTER XLVIII. THE LAST DISCOVERY 399 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ‘What I do remember, is my mother reading to me as _Frontispiece_. I lay in my crib’ A feeble water-coloured drawing of the trio _Vignette_. ‘That is poor Margaret who married your ancestor’ _Page_ 154 Lady Margaret’s ghost 346 CHAPTER I. A NURSERY PROSE. ‘And if it be the heart of man Which our existence measures, Far longer is our childhood’s span Than that of manly pleasures. ‘For long each month and year is then, Their thoughts and days extending, But months and years pass swift with men To time’s last goal descending.’ ISAAC WILLIAMS. THE united force of the younger generation has been brought upon me to record, with the aid of diaries and letters, the circumstances connected with Chantry House and my two dear elder brothers. Once this could not have been done without more pain than I could brook, but the lapse of time heals wounds, brings compensations, and, when the heart has ceased from aching and yearning, makes the memory of what once filled it a treasure to be brought forward with joy and thankfulness. Nor would it be well that some of those mentioned in the coming narrative should be wholly forgotten, and their place know them no more.