MONICA’S MAJORITY

5. THE CASUAL ACQUAINTANCE

6. A CAMP OF THE RESERVE

7. A SOCIAL ADVANCE

8. COUSIN EVERARD

9. THE SIMPLE FAITH

10. FIRST PRINCIPLES

11. AT NATURE’S BIDDING

12. WEDDINGS

13. DISCORD OF LEADERS

14. MOTIVES MEETING

15. THE JOYS OF HOME

16. HEALTH FROM THE SEA

17. THE TRIUMPH

18. A REINFORCEMENT

19. THE CLANK OF THE CHAINS

20. THE FIRST LIE

21. TOWARDS THE DECISIVE

22. HONOUR IN DIFFICULTIES

23. IN AMBUSH

24. TRACKED

25. THE FATE OF THE IDEAL

26. THE UNIDEAL TESTED

27. THE REASCENT

28. THE BURDEN OF FUTILE SOULS

29. CONFESSION AND COUNSEL

30. RETREAT WITH HONOUR

31. ANEW BEGINNING

1
THE FOLD AND THE SHEPHERD

‘SO to-morrow, Alice,’ said Dr Madden, as he walked with his eldest daughter on the coast-downs by Clevedon, ‘I shall take steps for insuring my life for a thousand pounds.’*

It was the outcome of a long and intimate conversation. Alice Madden, aged nineteen, a plain, shy, gentle-mannered girl, short of stature, and in movement something less than graceful, wore a pleased look as she glanced at her father’s face and then turned her eyes across the blue channel to the Welsh hills. She was flattered by the confidence reposed in her, for Dr Madden, reticent by nature, had never been known to speak in the domestic circle about his pecuniary affairs.