CHAPTER XLII. COALS OF FIRE CHAPTER XLIII. SIR JOHN ATONES Other Works by Silas K. Hocking 

 

List of Illustrations

"If you can only bring yourself to say Yes, I will do my best to make you the happiest woman in the world."

If you can only bring yourself to say Yes, I will do my best to make you the happiest woman in the world.

"Sir John raised his hunting-crop, and struck at Ralph with all his might."

Sir John raised his hunting-crop, and struck at Ralph with all his might.

"Ruth threw her arms about her mother's neck and burst into a passion of tears."

Ruth threw her arms about her mother's neck and burst into a passion of tears.

"William, breathless and excited, burst in upon him."

William, breathless and excited, burst in upon him.

THE SQUIRE'S DAUGHTER

CHAPTER I

AN IMPERIOUS MAIDEN

The voice was soft and musical, but the tone was imperative.

"I say, young man, open that gate."

The young man addressed turned slowly from the stile on which he had been leaning, and regarded the speaker attentively. She was seated on a high-stepping horse with that easy grace born of long familiarity with the saddle, and yet she seemed a mere girl, with soft round cheeks and laughing blue eyes.

"Come, wake up," she said, in tones more imperious than before, "and open the gate at once."

He resented the tone, though he was charmed with the picture, and instead of going toward the gate to do her bidding he 

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