THE MASTERFOLK
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PIGS IN CLOVER By Frank Danby THE CALL OF THE WILD By Jack London SPENDTHRIFT SUMMER By Margrey Williams IN THE GUARDIANSHIP OF GOD By Flora Annie Steel BEGGAR’S MANOR By R. Murray Gilchrist GORDON KEITH By Thomas Nelson Page THE LUCK OF BARERAKES By Caroline Marriage SIR JULIAN THE APOSTATE By Mrs. Clement Parsons TYPHOON By Joseph Conrad JERUSALEM By Selma Lagerlöf ’TWIXT GOD AND MAMMON By William Edwards Tirebuck
LONDON WILLIAM HEINEMANN 20 & 21 Bedford Street, W.C.
THE MASTERFOLK
Wherein is attempted the unravelling of the Strange Affair of my Lord Wyntwarde of Cavil and Miss Betty Modeyne
by HALDANE MACFALL Author of ‘The Wooings of Jezebel Pettyfer,’ etc.
London William Heinemann 1903
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TO GEORGE MEREDITH ESQUIRE
TO GIVE YOU THE SALUTE OF SOVEREIGNTY, SIR, CAN ADD NO TITTLE TO YOUR STATURE; BUT THERE IS SOLDIER’S DELIGHT IN SALUTING A CONQUEROR—AND TO YOUR BAYS THERE IS NO PRETENCE OF A PRETENDER