E-text prepared by Marius Masi, Jonathan Ingram, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustration. See 30939-h.htm or 30939-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/30939/pg30939-images.html) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/30939/30939-h.zip) Transcriber's note: Text following a carat character (^) was superscript in the original (example: M^r). THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SWANSTON EDITION VOLUME XII _Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Two Thousand and Sixty Copies have been printed, of which only Two Thousand Copies are for sale._ _This is No. ........._ [Illustration: R. L. S. DICTATING TO MRS. STRONG IN HIS STUDY AT VAILIMA] THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON VOLUME TWELVE LONDON : PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND WINDUS : IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED : WILLIAM HEINEMANN : AND LONGMANS GREEN AND COMPANY MDCCCCXII ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CONTENTS THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE CHAPTER PAGE I. SUMMARY OF EVENTS DURING THE MASTER'S WANDERINGS 9 II. SUMMARY OF EVENTS (_continued_) 21 III. THE MASTER'S WANDERINGS: FROM THE MEMOIRS OF THE CHEVALIER DE BURKE 38 IV. PERSECUTIONS ENDURED BY MR. HENRY 70 V. ACCOUNT OF ALL THAT PASSED ON THE NIGHT OF FEBRUARY 27TH, 1757 105 VI. SUMMARY OF EVENTS DURING THE MASTER'S SECOND ABSENCE 127 VII. ADVENTURE OF CHEVALIER BURKE IN INDIA: EXTRACTED FROM HIS MEMOIRS 147 VIII. THE ENEMY IN THE HOUSE 152 IX. MR. MACKELLAR'S JOURNEY WITH THE MASTER 175 X. PASSAGES AT NEW YORK 194 XI. THE JOURNEY IN THE WILDERNESS 213 XII. THE JOURNEY IN THE WILDERNESS (_continued_) 238 THE MASTER OF BALLANTRAE _TO_ _SIR PERCY FLORENCE AND LADY SHELLEY_