E-text prepared by Martin Pettit and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (https://archive.org) THE YARN OF OLD HARBOUR TOWN THE YARN OF OLD HARBOUR TOWN BY W. CLARK RUSSELL AUTHOR OF "THE ROMANCE OF A MIDSHIPMAN," ETC., ETC. SECOND IMPRESSION LONDONT. FISHER UNWINPATERNOSTER SQUARE1905 [All rights reserved]. CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE [Pg 1] [Pg 1] THE YARN OF OLD HARBOUR TOWN CHAPTER I LUCY ACTON CHAPTER I LUCY ACTON Old Harbour House stood about a mile from the Harbour. It confronted the town which lay about one mile and a half off, right across a wide, romantic, heavily-wooded ravine. The banks of this gap sloped softly and pleasantly into a plain of meadows and two or three farms whose dyes of roof and cattle enriched the verdure; and down there ran a river singing in measures of music as it flowed into the Harbour and mingled its bright water with the brine of the deep beyond. Above, on the placid slope of down close against Old Harbour