E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Clare Coney, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 17690-h.htm or 17690-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/6/9/17690/17690-h/17690-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/7/6/9/17690/17690-h.zip) THE MASTER OF APPLEBY A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady by FRANCIS LYNDE Illustrations by T. de Thulstrup New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers Copyright 1902 The Bowen-Merrill Company October TO Mr. Edward G. Richmond OF CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, WHOSE KINDNESS AND ENCOURAGEMENT MUST ALWAYS BE HELD IN LIVELY REMEMBRANCE BY THE AUTHOR THIS BOOK IS GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED [Illustration: But now I was fronting death and could be as firm as she] CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I I WHET MY FATHER'S SWORD 1 II KNITS UP SOME BROKEN ENDS 15 III MY ENEMY SCORES FIRST 25 IV MAY BE PASSED OVER LIGHTLY 36 V I LOST WHAT I HAD NEVER GAINED 47 VI RED WRATH MAY HEAL A WOUND 60 VII MY LADY HATH NO PART 75 VIII I TASTE THE QUALITY OF MERCY 88 IX A GOLDEN KEY UNLOCKED A DOOR 98 X A FORLORN HOPE CAME TO GRIEF 107 XI A LIE WAS MADE THE VERY TRUTH 114 XII THE NEWS CAME TO UNWELCOME EARS 129 XIII A PILGRIMAGE BEGINS 141 XIV THE BARONET PLAYED ROUGE-ET-NOIR 150 XV A HATCHET SINGS A MAN TO SLEEP 164 XVI JENNIFER THREW A MAIN WITH DEATH 171 XVII LOVE TOOK TOLL OF FRIENDSHIP 183 XVIII WE HEAR NEWS FROM THE SOUTH 194 XIX A STUMBLING HORSE BROUGHT TIDINGS 207 XX WE STRIVE AS MEN TO RUN A RACE 217 XXI WE KEPT LENTEN VIGILS IN TRINITYTIDE 228 XXII THE FATES GAVE LARGESS OF DESPAIR 235 XXIII WE KEPT THE FEAST OF BITTER HERBS 251 XXIV WE FOUND THE SUNKEN VALLEY 259 XXV UNCANOOLA TRAPPED THE GREAT BEAR 269 XXVI THE CHARRED STICK FOR A GUIDE 279