YOUNG LOCHINVAR 228 CHAPTER XXXI. A NOVEL BRIDAL TOUR 232 CHAPTER XXXII. EXIT JAMES ANSON DRANE 241 CHAPTER XXXIII. THE STRANGER PREACHER 252 CHAPTER XXXIV. THE CUP OF COLD WATER 258 CHAPTER XXXV. CONCLUSION 263 APPENDIX 269 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE 1. Abner gently checked his mare, and sat watching her _Frontispiece_ 2. Cane Ridge Meeting-house 27 3. Portrait of Barton Warren Stone 113 4. "I have come for my answer, Betty" 143 5. At this juncture the door was flung open by old Dilsey 225 6. The bridal equipage comes to grief 236 PRINCIPAL CHARACTERS. Abner Dudley (Logan,) a young schoolmaster from Virginia. Major Gilcrest, ex-Revolutionary soldier and prominent churchman. Mason Rogers, pioneer settler and warm advocate of Barton Stone. Barton Warren Stone, preacher at Cane Ridge meeting-house. James Anson Drane, young lawyer and land agent. Betsy Gilcrest, only daughter of Major and Mrs. Gilcrest. Abby Patterson, niece of Major Gilcrest. Sarah Jane Gilcrest, wife of Major Gilcrest. Cynthia Ann Rogers, bustling wife of Mason Rogers. Aunt Dilsey, negro nurse and under-house keeper at Oaklands. MINOR CHARACTERS. David Purviance, Simon Lucky, Matthew Houston, Wm. Trabue, Shadrac Landrum, Thomas Hinkson, members of Cane Ridge Church. Richard McNemar, tried by synod for heresy. General Wilkinson, Judge Innes, Judge Murray, Judge Sebastian, supposed Spanish intriguants. Graham, detective in employ of Federal Government. Henry Clay and Joseph Hamilton Daviess, opposing counsel in the Burr trial. Polly Hinkson and Molly Trabue, rustic belles. Richard Dudley, of Virginia, foster-father of Abner Dudley (Logan.) John Calvin, Martin Luther, Silas, Philip, Matthew, sons of Major and Mrs. Gilcrest. Henry, Susan, Lucindy, Lucy, Tommy, Barton, the six children of Mason and Cynthia Ann Rogers. Uncle Tony, Rube, Tom, Rache, Aunt Dink, slaves belonging to the Rogerses. CRESTLANDS _A Story of Early Kentucky_ MARY ADDAMS BAYNE CHAPTER I. THE COMING OF THE SCHOOLMASTER