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     (Princeton University)






EDINA
A NOVEL


BY
MRS. HENRY WOOD

AUTHOR OF
"EAST LYNNE," "THE CHANNINGS," "JOHNNY LUDLOW," ETC.



Fiftieth Thousand



London
MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1900






CONTENTS


PART THE FIRST.
CHAPTER
        I. HEARD AT MIDNIGHT.
       II. ROSALINE BELL.
      III. ON THE BARE PLAIN.
       IV. WAITING FOR BELL.
        V. MISSING.
       VI. DINING AT THE MOUNT.
      VII. ROMANCE.
     VIII. ROSE- DREAMS.
       IX. PLANNING OUT THE FUTURE.
        X. MAJOR AND MRS. RAYNOR.
       XI. SCHEMING.
      XII. THE WEDDING.
     XIII. UNDER THE STARS.
      XIV. IN THE CHURCHYARD.
       XV. LOOKING OUT FOR EDINA.
      XVI. COMMOTION.
     XVII. BROUGHT TO THE SURFACE.
    XVIII. A SUBTLE ENEMY.


PART THE SECOND.


        I. AT EAGLES' NEST.
       II. APPREHENSIONS.
      III. A TIGER.
       IV. AT JETTY'S.
        V. SIR PHILIP'S MISSION.
       VI. STARTLING NEWS.
      VII. FRANK RAYNOR FOLLOWED.
     VIII. THE NEW HOME.
       IX. MR. MAX BROWN.
        X. A NIGHT ALARM.


PART THE THIRD.


        I. LAUREL COTTAGE.
       II. JEALOUSY.
      III. CROPPING UP AGAIN.
       IV. HUMILIATION.
        V. THE MISSING DESK.
       VI. UNDER THE CHURCH WALLS.
      VII. MEETING AGAIN.
     VIII. HARD LINES.
       IX. TEARS.
        X. MADEMOISELLE'S LETTER.
       XI. SUNSHINE.






EDINA.





PART THE FIRST.




CHAPTER I.
HEARD AT MIDNIGHT.


The village, in which the first scenes of this history are laid, was
called Trennach; and the land about it was bleak and bare and dreary
enough, though situated in the grand old county of Cornwall. For mines
lay around, with all the signs and features of miners' work about
them; yawning pit mouths, leading down to rich beds of minerals--some
of the mines in all the bustle of full operation, some worked out and
abandoned. Again, in the neighbourhood of these, might be seen miners'
huts and other dwelling-places, and the counting-houses attached to
the shafts. The little village of Trennach skirted this tract of
labour; for, while the mining district extended for some miles on one
side the hamlet; on the other side, half-an-hour's quiet walking
brought you to a different country altogether--to spreading trees and
rich pasture land and luxuriant vegetation.

The village street chiefly consisted of shops. Very humble shops, most
of them; but the miners and the other inhabitants, out of reach of
better, found them sufficiently good for their purposes. Most of the
shops dealt in mixed articles, and might be called general shops. The
linendraper added brushes and brooms to his cottons and stuffs; the
grocer sold saucepans and gridirons; the baker did a thriving trade in
home-made pickles. On a dark night, the most cheerful-looking shop was
the druggist's: the  globes displayed in its windows sending
forth their reflections into the thoroughfare. This shop had also
added another branch to its legitimate trade--that of general
literature: for the one solitary doctor of the place dispensed his own
medicines, and the sale of drugs was not great. The shop boasted a
small circulating library; the miners and the miners' wives, like
their betters, being fond of sensational fiction. The books consisted
entirely of cheap volumes, issued at a shilling or two shillings
each