Mary Gray

BY KATHARINE TYNAN

Author of "Julia," "The Story of Bawn," "Her Ladyship," "For Maisie," etc., etc.

WITH FOUR COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS BY C. H. TAFFS

CASSELL AND COMPANY, LIMITED
London, Paris, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
1909
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

"The men would salute their old General, the General salute his old regiment"

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. Wistaria Terrace
CHAPTER II. The Wall Between
CHAPTER III. The New Estate
CHAPTER IV. Boy and Girl
CHAPTER V. "Old Blood and Thunder"
CHAPTER VI. The Blue Ribbon
CHAPTER VII. A Chance Meeting
CHAPTER VIII. Groves of Academe
CHAPTER IX. The Race with Death
CHAPTER X. Dispossessed
CHAPTER XI. The Lion
CHAPTER XII. Her Ladyship
CHAPTER XIII. The Heart of a Father
CHAPTER XIV. Lovers' Parting
CHAPTER XV. The General has an Idea
CHAPTER XVI. The Leading and the Light
CHAPTER XVII. A Night of Spring
CHAPTER XVIII. Halcyon Weather
CHAPTER XIX. Wild Thyme and Violets
CHAPTER XX. Jealousy, Cruel as the Grave
CHAPTER XXI. Two Women
CHAPTER XXII. Light on the Way
CHAPTER XXIII. The News in the Westminster
CHAPTER XXIV. The Friend
CHAPTER XXV. The One Woman
CHAPTER XXVI. Golden Days
CHAPTER XXVII. The Intermediary
CHAPTER XXVIII. Noel! Noel!

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

[Transcriber's note: This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project. Only the Frontispiece was included in the scans.]

"The men would salute their old General, the General salute his old regiment"

"Sir Robin Drummond had come to Mary's side, and turned the page of her music"

"'Do you know what I came here in the mind to ask you?'"

"'Miss Nelly is in the drawing-room, sir'"

MARY GRAY

CHAPTER I

WISTARIA TERRACE

The house where Mary Gray was born and grew towards womanhood was one of a squat line of mean little houses that hid themselves behind a great church. The roadway in front of the houses led only to the back entrance of the church. Over against the windows was the playground of the church schools, surrounded by a high wall that shut away field and sky from the front rooms of Wistaria Terrace.

The houses were drab and ugly, with untidy grass-plots in