HE THAT WILL NOT WHEN HE MAY HE THAT WILL NOT WHEN HE MAY BY MRS. OLIPHANT _IN THREE VOLUMES_ VOLUME III. London MACMILLAN AND CO. 1880 _The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved_ LONDON: R. CLAY, SONS, AND TAYLOR, BREAD STREET HILL. CONTENTS. PAGE CHAPTER I. 1 CHAPTER II. 12 CHAPTER III. 27 CHAPTER IV. 46 CHAPTER V. 70 CHAPTER VI. 88 CHAPTER VII. 108 CHAPTER VIII. 127 CHAPTER IX. 148 CHAPTER X. 166 CHAPTER XI. 190 CHAPTER XII. 211 CHAPTER XIII. 230 CHAPTER XIV. 255 HE THAT WILL NOT WHEN HE MAY. CHAPTER I. It was late, quite late, when Mr. Gus was “got to go away.” And it might have proved impossible altogether, but for some one who came for him and would not be denied. Mr. Scrivener was sitting alone with him in the library, from which all the others had gone, when this unknown summons arrived. The lawyer had done all he could to convince him that it was impossible he could remain; but Gus could not see the impossibility. He was hurt that they should wish him to go away, and still more hurt when the lawyer suggested that, in case of his claims being proved, Lady Markham would evacuate the house and leave it to him. “What would she do that for?” Gus cried. “Did I come here to be left in a great desert all by myself? I won’t let them go away.”