Produced by Al Haines [Frontispiece: W. Clark Russell] INTERNATIONAL SHORT STORIES EDITED BY WILLIAM PATTEN A NEW COLLECTION OF FAMOUS EXAMPLES FROM THE LITERATURES OF ENGLAND, FRANCE AND AMERICA ENGLISH P F COLLIER & SON NEW YORK Copyright, 1910 BY P. F. COLLIER & SON The use of the copyrighted stories in this collection has been authorized in each case by their authors or by their representatives. ENGLISH STORIES THE TWO DROVERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Sir Walter Scott MR. DEUCEACE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By W. M. Thackeray THE BROTHERS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Edward Bulmer Lytton DOCTOR MANETTE'S MANUSCRIPT . . . . . . . . . . . By Charles Dickens THE CALDRON OF OIL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Wilkie Collins THE BURIAL OF THE TITHE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Samuel Lover THE KNIGHTSBRIDGE MYSTERY . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Charles Reade THE COURTING OF DINAH SHADD . . . . . . . . . . . By Rudyard Kipling THE SIRE DE MALETROIT'S DOOR . . . . . . . . . . . By R. L. Stevenson THE SECRET OF GORESTHORPE GRANGE . . . . . . . . By Sir A. Conan Doyle A CHANGE OF TREATMENT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By W. W. Jacobs THE STICKIT MINISTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By S. R. Crockett THE LAMMAS PREACHING . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By S. R. Crockett AN UNDERGRADUATE'S AUNT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By F. Anstey THE SILHOUETTES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By A. T. Quiller-Couch MY BROTHER HENRY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By J. M. Barrie GILRAY'S FLOWER POT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By J. M. Barrie MR. O'LEARY'S SECOND LOVE . . . . . . . . . . . . . By Charles Lever THE INDIFFERENCE OF THE MILLER OF HOFBAU . . . By Anthony Hope Hawkins THE STOLEN BODY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By H. G. Wells THE LAZARETTE OF THE "HUNTRESS" . . . . . . . . . By W. Clark Russell THE GREAT TRIANGULAR DUEL . . . . . . . By Captain Frederick Marryat THREE THIMBLES AND A PEA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . By George Borrow THE TWO DROVERS By SIR WALTER SCOTT CHAPTER I It was the day after Donne Fair when my story commences. It had been a brisk market: several dealers had attended from the northern and midland counties in England, and English money had flown so merrily about as to gladden the hearts of the Highland farmers. Many large droves were about to set off for England, under the protection of their owners, or of the topsmen whom they employed in the tedious, laborious, and responsible office of driving the cattle for many hundred miles, from the market where they had been purchased to the fields or farm-yards where they were to be fattened for the shambles.