CHAPTER XXIII The Sharp Spur 184 CHAPTER XXIV The College of King James 193 CHAPTER XXV Satan Finds 201 CHAPTER XXVI Perfidy, thy Name is Woman! 209 CHAPTER XXVII Then, Heigh-ho, the Molly!' 218 CHAPTER XXVIII Love and the Logician 227 CHAPTER XXIX The Avalanche. 233 CHAPTER XXX The Vanishing Lady 244 CHAPTER XXXI wice Married 254 CHAPTER XXXII The Little House on the Meadows 262 CHAPTER XXXIII And the Door was Shut 268 CHAPTER XXXIV A Visit from Boyd Connoway 274 CHAPTER XXXV The Valley of the Shadow 280 CHAPTER XXXVI The Supplanter 288 CHAPTER XXXVII The Return of the Serpent to Eden Valley 297 CHAPTER XXXVIII By Water and the Word 305 CHAPTER XXXIX The Wicked Flag 313 CHAPTER XL The Great 'Tabernacle' Revival 322 CHAPTER XLI In the Wood Parlour 330 CHAPTER XLII The Place of Dreams 338 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ PART I CHAPTER I THE HAUNTED HOUSE OF MARNHOUL I, Duncan MacAlpine, school-master's son and uncovenanted assistant to my father, stood watching the dust which the Highflyer coach had left between me and Sandy Webb, the little guard thereof, as he whirled onward into the eye of the west. It was the hour before afternoon school, and already I could hear my father's voice within declaiming as to unnecessary datives and the lack of all feeling for style in the Latin prose of the seniors.