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Title: Hawtrey's Deputy

Author: Harold Bindloss

Illustrator: Cyrus Cuneo

Release Date: December 23, 2008 [EBook #27601]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: "In another moment Wyllard's last doubt vanished, and he
sprang forward with a gasp." (CHAPTER XXVIII.)]

HAWTREY'S DEPUTY

BY

HAROLD BINDLOSS

_Author of "The Impostor," "The Liberationist," etc._

Illustrated by

Cyrus Cuneo

WARD, LOCK & CO., LIMITED

LONDON, MELBOURNE AND TORONTO

1910

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER

I.--SALLY CREIGHTON
II.--SALLY TAKES CHARGE
III.--WYLLARD ASSENTS
IV.--A CRISIS
V.--THE OLD COUNTRY
VI.--HER PICTURE
VII.--AGATHA DOES NOT FLINCH
VIII.--THE TRAVELLING COMPANION
IX.--THE FOG
X.--DISILLUSION
XI.--AGATHA'S DECISION
XII.--WANDERERS
XIII.--THE SUMMONS
XIV.--AGATHA PROVES OBDURATE
XV.--THE BEACH
XVI.--THE FIRST ICE
XVII.--DEFEAT
XVIII.--A DELICATE ERRAND
XIX.--THE PRIOR CLAIM
XX.--THE FIRST STAKE
XXI.--GREGORY MAKES UP HIS MIND
XXII.--A PAINFUL REVELATION
XXIII.--THROUGH THE SNOW
XXIV.--THE LANDING
XXV.--NEWS OF DISASTER
XXVI.--THE RESCUE
XXVII.--IN THE WILDERNESS
XXVIII.--THE UNEXPECTED
XXIX.--CAST AWAY
XXX.--THE LAST EFFORT
XXXI.--WYLLARD COMES HOME

ILLUSTRATIONS

"In another moment Wyllard's last doubt vanished, and he sprang forward
with a gasp." . . . . . . _Frontispiece_

"She could not raise him wholly, and he cried out once when his injured
leg trailed in the snow."

"Then she turned to Sproatly. 'You can wash up those dishes on the
table.'"

"At length the door opened, and Agatha Ismay, wrapped in a long cloak,
came in."

"'Now,' he said, 'I won't let you fall.'"

"'You!' was all she said."

"In another moment Hawtrey sprang up on the platform, and she felt his
arms about her."

"Then something seemed to crack, and she saw the off-side horse stumble
and p