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[Updater's note: In Volume I, Chapters VIII and IX both have the same
title: "Peggy Walker's Adventures".  This was confirmed with the
source book.]





Mr. Hogarth's Will


by

Catherine Helen Spence





CONTENTS



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Volume I.




Chapter I.

The Will


In a large and handsomely-furnished room of a somewhat old-fashioned
house, situated in a rural district in the south of Scotland, was
assembled, one day in the early summer of 185-, a small group in deep
mourning.

Mr. Hogarth, of Cross Hall, had been taken suddenly ill a few days
previously, and had never recovered consciousness so far as to be able
to speak, though he had apparently