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Samuel Crockett

Lochinvar: A NovelS. R. Crockett Lochinvar: A Novel FOREWORD TO THE TALE, TELLING WHAT BEFELL AT THE HOUSE OF BALMAGHIE IN THE YEAR OF GRACE 1685, AND HOW MY LADY WELLWOOD PARTED TWO YOUNG LOVERS "Aye," said Mistress Crombie, house-keeper to Roger McGhie, Laird of Balmaghie, a considerable house ...

Sweethearts at HomeCrockett S. R. Samuel Rutherford Sweethearts at Home THE EDITOR'S CHAPTERS HE TELLS HOW IT ALL CAME ABOUT I A sleepy Sunday morning – and no need for any one to go to church.It was at Neuchâtel, under the trees by the lake, that I first became conscious of what wonderful assist...

The Grey ManThe Grey Man CHAPTER I THE OATH OF SWORDS Well do I mind the first time that ever I was in the heartsome town of Ballantrae. My father seldom went thither, because it was a hold of the Bargany folk, and it argued therefore sounder sense to give it the go-by. But it came to pass upon a...

The Stickit Minister's Wooing and Other Galloway StoriesThe Stickit Minister's Wooing and Other Galloway Stories Eight years ago "The Stickit Minister" stood friendless without the door of letters. He knew no one within, and feared greatly lest no hand of welcome should be held out to him from th...

Cleg Kelly, Arab of the City: His Progress and AdventuresADVENTURE I. THE OUTCASTING OF CLEG KELLYADVENTURE II. THE BURNING OF THE WHINNY KNOWESADVENTURE III. WHY CLEG KELLY HATED HIS FATHERADVENTURE IV. HOW ISBEL KELLY HEARD SWEET MUSICADVENTURE V. THE BRIGANDS OF THE CITYADVENTURE VI. CLEG TURN...

The Men of the Moss-HagsCrockett S. R. Samuel Rutherford The Men of the Moss-Hags / Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway PREFATORY NOTE I desire to express grateful thanks to my researchers, Mr. James Nicholson of Kirkcudbright, who examine...

The FirebrandCrockett S. R. Samuel Rutherford The Firebrand CHAPTER I THE MAKING OF AN OUTLAW Ramon Garcia, called El Sarria, lay crouched like a wild beast. And he was a wild beast. Yet he smiled as he blinked into the midnoon heat, under his shaggy brows, from his den beneath the great rock of ...

Deep Moat GrangeCrockett S. R. Samuel Rutherford Deep Moat Grange CHAPTER I THE EMPTY MAIL GIG I was only a young fellow when these things began to happen among us, but I remember very well the morning when it first came out about the Bewick carrier. He was postman, too, but had got permission to...

The Standard BearerS. R. Crockett The Standard Bearer THE FOREWORD A book iron-grey and chill is this that I have written, the tale of times when the passions of men were still working like a yeasty sea after the storms of the Great Killing. If these pages should chance to be read when the leaves...

Joan of the Sword HandJoan of the Sword Hand CHAPTER I THE HALL OF THE GUARD Loud rang the laughter in the hall of the men-at-arms at Castle Kernsberg. There had come an embassy from the hereditary Princess of Plassenburg, recently established upon the throne of her ancestors, to the Duchess Joan...