The Project Gutenberg eBook of Men of Mawm
Title: Men of Mawm
Author: W. Riley
Release date: November 2, 2015 [eBook #50369]
Most recently updated: October 22, 2024
Language: English
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WHAT THIS BOOK IS ABOUT
For a short space Mr. Riley forsook the white for the red rose, and wrote The Lady of the Lawn as a result. He has now definitely returned to his own country, and in his new novel is told the story of Maniwel Drake, who has lost an arm; but maintains his cheerful and genial nature, and Baldwin Briggs, whose motto is “All for my-sen.”
The story deals with one of those contrasts of conflicting personalities that Mr. Riley loves to draw. There are dramatic episodes as well as character studies, and the local colour that Mr. Riley loves to introduce. Above all there blows through the book the breath of the Moors, without which a Riley book would not be a Riley book.
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MEN OF
MAWM
BY
W. RILEY
HERBERT JENKINS LIMITED
3 YORK STREET, ST. JAMES’S
LONDON, S.W.1 ❦ ❦ MCMXXII
Printed in Great Britain by Love & Malcomson, Ltd.
London and Redhill.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | IN WHICH INMAN ENTERS MAWM | 7 |
| II. | INMAN RECEIVES A COLD RECEPTION AND SOME INFORMATION | 17 |
| III. | MANIWEL DRAKE MAKES A SUGGESTION | 27 |
| IV. | THE WOMAN ENTERS WITH THE SERPENT | 37 |
| V. | JAGGER DRAKE SETS HIS TEETH | 48 |
| VI. | BALDWIN’S SCAFFOLDING GIVES WAY AND ALSO HIS RESERVE | 60 |
| VII. | NANCY SPEAKS HER MIND | 69 |
| VIII. | NANCY QUESTIONS HER HEART AND MANIWEL QUESTIONS HIS SON | 80 |
| IX. | ONE LOVER WALKS OUT AND ANOTHER WALKS IN | 91 |
| X. | THE COMPANY AT THE “PACKHORSE” IS INVITED TO DRINK A HEALTH | 101 |
| XI. | THE CONDITIONS ARE WINTRY | 110 |
| XII. | BALDWIN’S SKY BECOMES SLIGHTLY OVERCAST | 121 |
| XIII. | INMAN PROVES HIMSELF COMPETENT | 131 |
| XIV. | JOHN CLEGG IS “WANTED” AND MANIWEL ISN’T | 141 |
| XV. | THE VILLAGERS DISCUSS THE DISASTER | 150 |
| XVI. | INMAN SHOWS THE SUBTLETY OF A VERY VENOMOUS SERPENT | 160 |
| XVII. | NANCY’S BABY IS BORN AND JAGGER LOSES HIS TEMPER | 170 |
| XVIII. | BALDWIN ALLOWS AN OPPORTUNITY TO SLIP | 179 |
| XIX. | THE BILL OF SALE IS COMPLETED | 190 |
| XX. | THERE IS A SENSATIONAL ROBBERY | 202 |
| XXI. | IN WHICH EVENTS MOVE QUICKLY | 210 |
| XXII. | BALDWIN FINDS NEW LODGINGS | 221 |
| XXIII. | NANCY IS OVERWHELMED | 231 |
| XXIV. | INMAN’S POPULARITY IS SEEN TO WAVER | 241 |
| XXV. | NANCY DISCUSSES THE SITUATION WITH JAGGER | 250 |
| XXVI. | MANIWEL LETS JAGGER INTO A SECRET | 260 |
| XXVII. | NANCY PLAYS THE PART OF DETECTIVE | 269 |
| XXVIII. | MANIWEL AND JAGGER JOIN IN THE GAME | 280 |
| XXIX. | THE TABLES ARE TURNED MORE THAN ONCE | 290 |
| XXX. | SWITHIN TELLS HIS STORY | 300 |
| XXXI. | WE TAKE LEAVE OF THE MEN OF MAWM | 309 |