Produced by Charles Aldarondo, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team MICHAEL'S CRAG BY GRANT ALLEN AUTHOR OF "WHAT'S BRED IN THE BONE," "TENTS OP SHEM," "IN ALL SHADES," ETC. With over Three Hundred and Fifty Illustrations In Silhouette BY FRANCIS CARRUTHERS GOULD AND ALEC CARRUTHERS GOULD CHICAGO AND NEW YORK: 1893 CONTENTS. CHAPTER. I. A CORNISH LANDLORD II. TREVENNACK III. FACE TO FACE IV. TYRREL'S REMORSE V. A STRANGE DELUSION VI. PURE ACCIDENT VII. PERIL BY LAND VIII. SAFE AT LAST IX. MEDICAL OPINION X. A BOLD ATTEMPT XI. BUSINESS IS BUSINESS XII. A HARD BARGAIN XIII. ANGEL AND DEVIL XIV. AT ARM'S LENGTH XV. ST. MICHAEL DOES BATTLE CHAPTER I. A CORNISH LANDLORD. "Then you don't care for the place yourself, Tyrrel?" Eustace Le Neve said, musingly, as he gazed in front of him with a comprehensive glance at the long gray moor and the wide expanse of black and stormy water. "It's bleak, of course; bleak and cold, I grant you; all this upland plateau about the Lizard promontory seems bleak and cold everywhere; but to my mind it has a certain wild and weird picturesqueness of its own for all that. It aims at gloominess. I confess in its own way I don't dislike it." "For my part," Tyrrel answered, clinching his hand hard as he spoke, and knitting his brow despondently, "I simply hate it. If I wasn't the landlord here, to be perfectly frank with you, I'd never come near Penmorgan. I do it for conscience' sake, to be among my own people. That's my only reason. I disapprove of absenteeism; and now the land's mine, why, I must put up with it, I suppose, and live upon it in spite of myself. But I do it against the grain. The whole place, if I tell you the truth, is simply detestable to me."