STARVECROW FARM By STANLEY J. WEYMAN. THE HOUSE OF THE WOLF. A Romance. With Frontispiece and Vignette. Crown 8vo, cloth, $1.25. THE STORY OF FRANCIS CLUDDE. A Romance. With four Illustrations. Crown 8vo, $1.25. A GENTLEMAN OF FRANCE. Being the Memoirs of Gaston de Bonne, Sieur de Marsac. With Frontispiece and Vignette. Crown 8vo, cloth, $1.25. UNDER THE RED ROBE. With twelve full-page Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth, $1.25. MY LADY ROTHA. A Romance of the Thirty Years’ War. With eight Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth, $1.25. FROM THE MEMOIRS OF A MINISTER OF FRANCE. With thirty-six Illustrations. Crown 8vo, cloth, $1.25. THE MAN IN BLACK. With twelve Illustrations. Crown 8vo, $1.00. SHREWSBURY. A Romance. With twenty-four Illustrations. Crown 8vo, $1.50. THE RED COCKADE. A Novel. With 48 Illustrations by R. Caton Woodville. Crown 8vo, $1.50. THE CASTLE INN. A Novel. With six full-page Illustrations by Walter Appleton Clark. Crown 8vo, $1.50. SOPHIA. A Romance. With twelve full-page Illustrations. Crown 8vo, $1.50. COUNT HANNIBAL. A Romance of the Court of France. With Frontispiece. Crown 8vo, $1.50. IN KINGS’ BYWAYS. With Frontispiece. Crown 8vo, $1.50. THE ABBESS OF VLAYE. With Frontispiece. Crown 8vo, $1.50. New York: Longmans, Green, and Co. STARVECROW FARM BY STANLEY J. WEYMAN _Author of “A Gentleman of France” “The Abbess of Vlaye,” “Count Hannibal,” “The Castle Inn,” “The Red Cockade,” “Under the Red Robe,” etc., etc_. _ILLUSTRATED_ LONGMANS, GREEN, AND CO. 91 AND 93 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK LONDON AND BOMBAY 1905 Copyright, 1904, by STANLEY J. WEYMAN _All rights reserved_ Contents CHAPTER I. Across the Quicksands. CHAPTER II. A Red Waistcoat. CHAPTER III. A Wedding Morning. CHAPTER IV. Two to One. CHAPTER V. A Jezebel. CHAPTER VI. The Inquiry. CHAPTER VII. Captain Anthony Clyne. CHAPTER VIII. Starvecrow Farm. CHAPTER IX. Punishment. CHAPTER X. Henrietta in Naxos. CHAPTER XI. Captain Clyne’s Plan. CHAPTER XII. The Old Love. CHAPTER XIII. A Jealous Woman. CHAPTER XIV. The Letter. CHAPTER XV. The Answer. CHAPTER XVI. A Night Adventure. CHAPTER XVII. The Edge of the Storm. CHAPTER XVIII. Mr. Joseph Nadin. CHAPTER XIX. At the Farm. CHAPTER XX. Proof Positive. CHAPTER XXI. Cousin Meets Cousin. CHAPTER XXII. Mr. Sutton’s New Rôle. CHAPTER XXIII. In Kendal Gaol. CHAPTER XXIV. The Rôle Continued. CHAPTER XXV. Prison Experiences. CHAPTER XXVI. A Reconciliation. CHAPTER XXVII. Bishop Caught Napping. CHAPTER XXVIII. The Golden Ship. CHAPTER XXIX. The Dark Maid. CHAPTER XXX. Bess’s Triumph. CHAPTER XXXI. A Strange Bedroom. CHAPTER XXXII. The Search. CHAPTER XXXIII. The Smugglers’ Oven. CHAPTER XXXIV. In Tyson’s Kitchen. CHAPTER XXXV. Through The Wood. CHAPTER XXXVI. Two of a Race. LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS They paid off the Guide under the walls of the old Priory Church at Cartmel. “I give you a last chance,” he said. He neither cared nor saw who it was whom he had jostled.