LADY KILPATRICK
By Robert Buchanan
A New Edition
London
Chatto & Windus
1898
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.—INTRODUCES DESMOND AND DULCIE.
CHAPTER III.—MR. PEEBLES RECEIVES A MESSAGE.
CHAPTER IV.—A SURPRISE FOR DESMOND.
CHAPTER V.—LADY DULCIE OFFERS CONSOLATION.
CHAPTER VI.—THE MEETING IN THE GRAVEYARD.
CHAPTER VII.—BLAKE, OF BLAKE’S HALL.
CHAPTER IX.—IN WHICH MISCHIEF IS BREWING.
CHAPTER XII.—MR. PEEBLES PREPARES FOR WAR.
CHAPTER XVI.—IN WHICH LORD KILPATRICK NAMES HIS HEIR.
LADY KILPATRICK
CHAPTER I.—INTRODUCES DESMOND AND DULCIE.
On a summer evening, twenty years ago, a girl and a youth were strolling slowly along the strip of yellow sands which leads from the verge of the Atlantic to the steep line of rock dominated by Kilpatrick Castle.
The girl, who was not more than seventeen years of age, carried her hat and parasol in her hand: the first a serviceable article, little superior in form and material to that generally worn by the superior peasants of the district; the other a dainty trifle in pale blue silk, better in keeping with the tailor-made dress and dainty French shoes in which its owner was dressed. She had a delightfully fair and fresh complexion, a little freckled by a too free exposure to the sun, and her dark blue eyes sh