Chapter I: Front Matter

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MISTRESS NANCY MOLESWORTH

A TALE OF ADVENTURE

BY

JOSEPH HOCKING

Author of "The Birthright," etc.

NEW YORK

DOUBLEDAY & McCLURE CO.

1898

COPYRIGHT, 1898, BY DOUBLEDAY & McCLURE CO.

Press of J. J. Little & Co. Astor Place, New York

Contents

CHAPTER PAGE
I.--Trevanion, 1

II.--Peter Trevisa's Offer, 10

III.--Crossing the Rubicon, 24

IV.--My Journey to Endellion, 37

V.--My First Night at Endellion, 51

VI.--The Uses of a Serving-Maid, 67

VII.--On the Roof of Endellion Castle, 82

VIII.--Otho Discovers My Name, 95

IX.--Benet Killigrew as a Wrestler, 111

X.--The Escape from Endellion, 125

XI.--My Fight with Benet Killigrew, 139

XII.--Roche Rock, 153

XIII.--The Wisdom of Gossiping with an Innkeeper, 168

XIV.--The Haunted Chapel of St. Mawgan, 181

XV.--The Scene at a Wayside Inn, 195

XVI.--Why I Took Nancy to Treviscoe, 210

XVII.--The Charge of Treason, 224

XVIII.--Otho Killigrew's Victory, 239

XIX.--Launceston Castle, 251

XX.--I Escape from the Witch's Tower, 267

XXI.--Describes My Journey from Launceston Castle
to a Lonely Mansion Accompanied by Two Women, 285

XXII.--Mistress Nancy Tells Me Many Things, 301

XXIII.--In Which it is Shown that Uncle Anthony
Was More than a Droll, 315

XXIV.--Otho Killigrew Uses an Old Proverb, 330

XXV.--How January Changed to June, 344

XXVI.--I Fall Into Otho Killigrew's Hands, 358

XXVII.--How Benet Killigrew and I Fought in the
Light of the Beacon Fire, 371

XXVIII.--Otho Killigrew's Last Move, 386

XXIX.--The King's Gratitude, 400

XXX.--In Which Uncle Anthony Plays His Harp, 414

MISTRESS NANCY MOLESWORTH