One Woman: Being the Second Part of a Romance of Sussex

DEEPENING DUSK I THE HOSTEL II COW GAP III THE WATCHMAN ON THE HEAD IV ALF V THE CREEPING DEATH VI THE COLONEL LEARNS A SECRET VII THE MAN FROM THE NORTH VIII THE ...

TROUBLED DAWN XXII THE BETRAYAL XXIII THE COLONEL FACES DEFEAT XXIV THE PILGRIMS XXV RED IN THE MORNING XXVI THE AVALANCHE MOVES XXVII THE GROWING ROAR XXVIII OLD TO...

THE HOSTEL Dr. Trupp of Beachbourne, as he was generally known--Mr. Trupp, to give him his correct title--was a genuinely great man. His father had been a book-seller in Torquay;...

COW GAP Honeymoons are not for the class that does the world's dirty work; but joy can be seized by the simple of heart even in the conditions we impose upon the poor. Ernie Casp...

THE WATCHMAN ON THE HEAD On one of the last days of that brilliant October, just before the grey curtain of rains descended to blot out autumn fields and twinkling waters, Colonel...

ALF Then a child lifted its tiny sail on the far horizon. Its rippling approach across the flood-tides absorbed Ruth and helped Ernie: for he had in him much of his father's myst...

THE CREEPING DEATH One evening at the club, Mr. Trupp asked the Colonel what had happened to Captain Royal. "He went through the Staff College, and now he's at the War Office, I ...

THE COLONEL LEARNS A SECRET If the Colonel in his missionary efforts for the National Service League made little impression on the masses in the East-end, he was astonishingly suc...

THE MAN FROM THE NORTH A few days later, on a Saturday afternoon, the Colonel was sitting in the loggia of the hostel looking out over the sea when he saw two men coming down the ...

engineer's address, adding with characteristic breadth, "It might be worth your while to follow him up perhaps, Colonel." Joe Burt lodged in the East-end off Pevensey Road in the...

THE CHERUB The advent of Bobby Chislehurst to Old Town made a considerable difference to Bessie Trupp. She was not at all in love with him and he only pleasantly so with her; but...

THE SHADOW OF ROYAL That evening Alf called at Bobby's lodgings and apologised frankly. "I know I said what I shouldn't, sir," he admitted. "But it fairly tortured me to see you...

BOBS The old Field-Marshal, wise and anxious as a great doctor, was sitting now at the bedside of the patient that was his country. His finger was on her pulse, his eye on the ho...

THE RUSSET-COATED CAPTAIN Joe Burt had been born at Rochdale of a mother whose favourite saying was: "With a rocking-chair and a piece o celery a Lancasheer lass is aw reet." At...

RUTH WAKES Apart from such occasional sallies Ruth paid little attention to her husband's friend or, indeed, to anything outside her home. Now that she had dropped her anchor in ...

NIGHTMARE A few days later on his way back to the Manor-house from visiting his little patient in the Moot, the old surgeon met Mr. Pigott, who stopped to make enquiries. "She'll...

SHADOWS Ern was not called up after all. The trap-door through which men had peered aghast into the fires of hell, closed suddenly as it had opened. Only the clang of the stoker...

THE LANDLORD Alf's great scheme indeed was prospering. Thwarted by the Woman, and driven back upon himself, he had taken up the career of action at the point where he had left it...

like." He drew the back of his hand significantly across his mouth. Ruth brushed his impertinence aside with the friendly insouciance which endeared her to young men. "Got the s...

THE GRANDMOTHER Ruth and her mother-in-law frequently met in the steep and curling streets of Old Town as they went about their business. They knew and tacitly ignored each other...

THE CHALLENGE Joe Burt had that passion for saving souls which is the hall-mark of the missionary in every age. Had he been a child of the previous generation he would have becom...

A SKIRMISH A few days later Ernie came home immediately after work instead of repairing to the _Star_. As he entered the room Ruth saw there was something up. He was sober--terr...

PITCHED BATTLE Mrs. Trubb happened on Ernie's mother next day in Church Street. The surgeon's wife, whenever she met Mrs. Edward Caspar, acted always deliberately on the assumpti...

THE VANQUISHED When Colonel and Mrs. Lewknor called at the Manor-house a few days later, Mrs. Trupp told them what had happened. "Burt paid her rent?" queried the Colonel. "With...

THUNDER The two brothers had to appear before the Bench on Monday. As it chanced Mr. Pigott, Colonel Lewknor and Mr. Trupp were the only magistrates present. Ernie, who appeared...

THE BETRAYAL The Ulster Campaign was moving forward now with something of the shabby and theatrical pomp of a travelling circus parading the outskirts of a sea-side town before a ...

THE COLONEL FACES DEFEAT The Colonel, who throughout his life while making a great show of radical opinions in the mess for the benefit of his brother-officers had always voted qu...

THE PILGRIMS Spring comes to Beachbourne as it comes to no other city of earth, however fair; say those of her children who after long sojourning in other lands come home in the e...

RED IN THE MORNING Joe Burt's rhetoric might not affect the Colonel greatly; but the impressions of Mr. Geddes, conveyed to him quietly a few days later in friendly conversation, ...

THE AVALANCHE MOVES The placard, seen by the Colonel, announced the opening of a new scene in the Irish tragedy. The King had summoned a Conference at Buckingham Palace in order ...

THE GROWING ROAR The avalanche, once started, was moving fast now. The Irish Nationalists who had lost faith in the power of the Government and the will of the Army to protect th...

OLD TOWN Next day was Sunday. The Colonel waited on the cliff for his paper, which brought the expected news. The die was cast. Germany had proclaimed martial law: she was alre...

FOLLOW YOUR LEADER Philip Blackburn's meeting had not been advertised, for it was only in the small hours of the morning that a motor-bicyclist scaring the hares and herons in the...

THE END OF THE WORLD The next day was Bank Holiday; and such a holiday as no living man had known or would ever know again. Half the world had already tumbled into hell; and the ...

THE COLONEL That night Sir Edward Grey made the historic speech, which swung the nation into line like one man, and launched Great Britain on the supreme adventure of her history....

THE DAY OF JUDGEMENT Ernie clattered into the kitchen at a busy trot, and stumbled upstairs without a word to his wife at the sink. There was such an air of stir and secret purpo...

BEAU-NEZ He returned to the Moot to find little Alice crying in the door. A pathetic little shrimp of a creature she looked, huddled against the door-post, her face hidden, her s...

THE STATION Next day Ernie was to join up. After dinner he kissed Susie and Jenny, gave them each a penny, and despatched them to play. Hand in hand they stamped away to Motcomb...

IN THE EVENING The Archdeacon and his sidesman walked back to Old Town from the station together. Mr. Trupp and Mr. Pigott followed behind. "The Archdeacon lags a bit," said the...

RUTH FACES THE STORM That night as the Colonel sat on the loggia chewing his pipe, long after Mrs. Lewknor had retired, he was aware of a pillar of blackness, erect against the du...

MRS. LEWKNOR The Town Hall was crowded. The Mayor, who was in the chair, had spoken on behalf of the Prince of Wales's Fund and announced that subscriptions would be received by ...

SUSPENSE Ruth walked home across the golf links, at her heart the agony of the beaten vixen who, crawling across a ploughed field still far from her earth, glances round to see a ...

THE VALLEY OF DECISION The answer she had sought had been given her. Comforted and strengthened she rose, went to the door and unlocked it. Joe had strolled a yard or two down t...

VICTORY AND REVENGE In the fury of his excitement Alf thrust his head and shoulders far into the room. "Got you this time!" he screamed to Joe, his face distorted with hate. "_Mr...