Italic represented by underscores surrounding the _italic text_. Small capitals have been converted to ALL CAPS. OLIVER CONSTABLE MILLER AND BAKER BY SARAH TYTLER AUTHOR OF ‘CITOYENNE JACQUELINE’ ‘SCOTCH FIRS’ ETC. _IN THREE VOLUMES_ VOL. III. LONDON SMITH, ELDER, & CO., 15 WATERLOO PLACE 1880 [_All rights reserved_] CONTENTS OF THE THIRD VOLUME. CHAPTER PAGE XXIII. HARRY STANHOPE’S WANT 1 XXIV. FAN’S TRIUMPH 22 XXV. ‘THE DEVIL SHALL NOT HAVE HARRY’ 59 XXVI. THE PRICE AT WHICH HARRY STANHOPE WAS RESCUED 96 XXVII. THE LAST PENNY PAID 126 XXVIII. OLIVER’S RETURN 140 XXIX. FRESH SERVICE 175 XXX. STUMBLED ACROSS, INTERVIEWED, TAKEN AT HIS WORD 197 XXXI. LIFE—AND DEATH 214 XXXII. ‘DO THEY BELIEVE IN ME NOW?’ 240 OLIVER CONSTABLE, _MILLER AND BAKER_. CHAPTER XXIII. HARRY STANHOPE’S WANT. Oliver had liberally allowed Harry Stanhope six months in which to ride his hobby and grow sick beyond endurance of his _rôle_ of yeoman. But whereas Harry had entered on the character, on a fine summer afternoon, in the attractive prospect of hay-making, corn-cutting, and hop-picking, it was midwinter, with no more agreeable occupations in view than thrashing corn, pulling turnips, turning over potatoes in the pits, and ploughing a stiff clay soil under the murky sky of a short day in muggy weather, still he showed no signs of throwing up the part in satiety and disgust. True, he had sufficient leisure to join the other farmers in presenting himself in the hunting field, and enjoying as good mounts and glorious runs as the squires or the M.F.H. himself.