Produced by Al Haines. [Illustration: Mary Johnston] *THE OLD DOMINION* BY MARY JOHNSTON Author of "By Order of the Company" "Audrey" and "Sir Mortimer" LONDON ARCHIBALD CONSTABLE & CO LTD 1907 1st Impression, January, 1899 2nd " August, 1899 3rd " May, 1900 4th " July, 1900 5th " October, 1900 6th " February, 1901 7th " August, 1901 8th " August, 1902 9th " April, 1904 10th " (Pocket Edition) March, 1906 11th " " " Sept. 1907 TO MY FATHER *CONTENTS* CHAPTER I. A Sloop comes in II. Its Cargo III. A Colonial Dinner Party IV. The Breaking Heart V. In the Three-Mile Field VI. The Hut on the Marsh VII. A Mender of Nets VIII. The New Secretary IX. An Interrupted Wooing X. Landless pays the Piper XI. Landless becomes a Conspirator XII. A Dark Deed XIII. In the Tobacco House XIV. A Midnight Expedition XV. The Waters of Chesapeake XVI. The Face in the Dark XVII. Landless and Patricia XVIII. A Capture XIX. The Library of the Surveyor-General XX. Wherein the Peace Pipe is smoked XXI. The Duel XXII. The Tobacco House again XXIII. The Question XXIV. A Message XXV. The Road to Paradise XXVI. Night XXVII. Morning XXVIII. Bread cast upon the Waters XXIX. The Bridge of Rock XXX. The Backward Track XXXI. The Hut in the Clearing XXXII. Attack XXXIII. The Fall of the Leaf XXXIV. An Accident XXXV. The Boat that was not XXXVI. The Last Fight XXXVII. Vale *CHAPTER I* *A SLOOP COMES IN* "She will reach the wharf in half an hour." The speaker shaded her eyes with a great fan of carved ivory and painted silk. They were beautiful eyes; large, brown, perfect in shape and expression, and set in a lovely, imperious, laughing face. The divinity to whom they belonged was clad in a gown of green dimity, flowered with pink roses, and trimmed about the neck and half sleeves with a fall of yellow lace. The gown was made according to the latest Paris mode, as described in a year-old letter from the court of Charles the Second, and its wearer gazed from under her fan towards the waters of the great bay of Chesapeake, in his Majesty’s most loyal and well beloved dominion of Virginia.