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Title: Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

Author: Charles Major

Release Date: January 11, 2005 [EBook #14671]

Language: English

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[Illustration]

Mary Pickford Edition

Dorothy Vernon of
Haddon Hall

BY

CHARLES MAJOR

AUTHOR OF
WHEN KNIGHTHOOD WAS IN FLOWER,
YOLANDA, ETC.

ILLUSTRATED WITH
SCENES FROM THE PHOTOPLAY

GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

Made in the United States of America

Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1908

Printed in U.S.A.

To My Wife

CONTENTS

Page

A TOUCH OF BLACK MAGIC 1

CHAPTER
I. I RIDE SOWN TO HADDON 3
II. THE IRON, THE SEED, THE CLOUD, AND THE RAIN 19
III. THE PITCHER GOES TO THE WELL 35
IV. THE GOLDEN HEART 62
V. MINE ENEMY'S ROOF-TREE 91
VI. A DANGEROUS TRIP TO DERBY-TOWN 108
VII. TRIBULATION IN HADDON 130
VIII. MALCOLM NO. 2 163
IX. A TRYST AT BOWLING GREEN GATE 181
X. THOMAS THE MAN-SERVANT 211
XI. THE COST MARK OF JOY 239
XII. THE LEICESTER POSSIBILITY 260
XIII. PROUD DAYS FOR THE OLD HALL 281
XIV. MARY STUART 302
XV. LIGHT 333
XVI. LEICESTER WAITS AT THE STILE 360

A TOUCH OF BLACK MAGIC

I draw the wizard's circle upon the sands, and blue flames spring from its
circumference. I describe an inner circle, and green flames come
responsive to my words of magic. I touch the common centre of both with my
wand, and red flames, like adders' tongues, leap from the earth. Over
these