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Title: Johnny Ludlow, Third Series
Author: Mrs. Henry Wood
Release Date: October 4, 2012 [eBook #40936]
Language: English
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JOHNNY LUDLOW.
THIRD SERIES
JOHNNY LUDLOW
BY
MRS. HENRY WOOD
AUTHOR OF
“EAST LYNNE,” “THE CHANNINGS,” ETC.
THIRD SERIES.
Twenty-Third Thousand
London:
MACMILLAN AND CO., Limited.
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
1899.
LONDON:
PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, LIMITED,
STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS.
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| The Mystery of Jessy Page | 1 |
| Crabb Ravine | 43 |
| Our Visit | 87 |
| Janet Carey | 112 |
| Dr. Knox | 135 |
| Helen Whitney’s Wedding | 158 |
| Helen’s Curate | 180 |
| Jellico’s Pack | 203 |
| Caromel’s Farm | 223 |
| Charlotte and Charlotte | 244 |
| The Last of the Caromels | 267 |
| A Day in Briar Wood | 290 |
| The Story of Dorothy Grape: Disappearance | 313 |
| The Story of Dorothy Grape: In After Years | 335 |
| Lady Jenkins: Mina | 359 |
| Lady Jenkins: Doubt | 382 |
| Lady Jenkins: Madame | 406 |
| Lady Jenkins: Light | 429 |
| The Angels’ Music | 452 |
With songs of sadness and of mirth,
That they might touch the hearts of men,
And bring them back to heaven again.”
Longfellow.
JOHNNY LUDLOW
THE MYSTERY OF JESSY PAGE.
I.
Our old grey church at Church Dykely stood in a solitary spot. Servant maids (two of ours once, Hannah and Molly), and silly village girls went there sometimes to watch for the “shadows” on St. Mark’s Eve, and owls had a habit of darting out of the belfry at night. Within view of the church, though at some distance from it, stood the lonely, red-brick, angular dwelling-house belonging to Copse Farm. It was inhabited by Mr. Page, a plain worthy widower, getting in years; his three daughters and little son. Abigail and Susan Page, two experienced, sensible, industrious young women,