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       THE WORKS OF
  ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

     SWANSTON EDITION

       VOLUME VIII


  _Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five
  Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS
  STEVENSON Two Thousand and Sixty Copies
  have been printed, of which only Two Thousand
  Copies are for sale._

  _This is No.........._


[Illustration: FACSIMILE OF A DRAWING BY R. L. S. WHEN HE WAS STAYING
AT LE MONASTIER IN 1878]




  THE WORKS OF
  ROBERT LOUIS
   STEVENSON


  VOLUME EIGHT

  LONDON : PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND
  WINDUS : IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL
  AND COMPANY LIMITED : WILLIAM
  HEINEMANN : AND LONGMANS GREEN
  AND COMPANY          MDCCCCXI


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CONTENTS


THE BLACK ARROW

  PROLOGUE
                                                          PAGE
    John Amend-all                                           7


  BOOK I.--THE TWO LADS

    CHAPTER
       I. AT THE SIGN OF THE "SUN" IN KETTLEY               25

      II. IN THE FEN                                        34

     III. THE FEN FERRY                                     40

      IV. A GREENWOOD COMPANY                               48

       V. "BLOODY AS THE HUNTER"                            56

      VI. TO THE DAY'S END                                  65

     VII. THE HOODED FACE                                   72


  BOOK II.--THE MOAT HOUSE

       I. DICK ASKS QUESTIONS                               83

     