(VOLUME III) ***




Produced by Al Haines.


                       STAND FAST, CRAIG-ROYSTON!

                                A Novel


                                   BY

                             WILLIAM BLACK,

                               AUTHOR OF
             "A DAUGHTER OF HETH," "MACLEOD OF DARE," ETC.



                          _IN THREE VOLUMES._
                               VOL. III.



                                LONDON:
           SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON, LIMITED
                          St. Dunstan's House
                    FETTER LANE, FLEET STREET, E.C.
                                 1891.

                        [_All rights reserved._]




                                LONDON:
              PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
                   STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.




                         CONTENTS OF VOL. III.

CHAPTER

      I. In Vain--in Vain
     II. Beyond Seas
    III. West and East
     IV. Enlightenment
      V. Marriage not a la Mode
     VI. A Split at Last
    VII. New Ways of Life
   VIII. In a Northern Village
     IX. A Babble o' Green Fields: the End




                       STAND FAST, CRAIG-ROYSTON!



                               CHAPTER I.

                           IN VAIN--IN VAIN.


One evening Mr. Courtnay Fox, the London correspondent of the Edinburgh
_Chronicle_, was as usual in his own room in the office in Fleet-street,
when a card was brought to him.

"Show the gentleman up," said he to the boy.

A couple of seconds thereafter Vincent Harris made his appearance.

"Mr. Fox?" said he, inquiringly.

The heavy-built journalist did not rise to receive his visitor; he
merely said--

"Take a chair.  What can I do for you?"

"No, thanks," said Vincent, "I don't wish