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A stranger's arrival at a riverside household sets off intertwined episodes of revelation, loss, and social struggle in a Southern community. Through exchanged letters, an accident, and community gatherings such as rummage sales and auctions, hidden family ties and disputed inheritances are gradually uncovered. Searches for a will, discoveries of a small hair-trunk and journeys to a palmetto clearing and Florida test characters' loyalties and temptations. The narrative concludes with reconciliations and the resolution of mysterious origins and material claims, restoring order to disrupted domestic lives.

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Title: The Cromptons

Author: Mary Jane Holmes

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Language: English

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BY

MRS. MARY J. HOLMES.

TEMPEST AND SUNSHINE.
DARKNESS AND DAYLIGHTS.
ENGLISH ORPHANS.
HUGH WORTHINGTON.
HOMESTEAD ON HILLSIDE.
CAMERON PRIDE.
'LENA RIVERS.
ROSE MATHER.
MEADOW BROOK.
ETHELYN'S MISTAKE.
DORA DEANE.
MILBANK.
COUSIN MAUDE.
EDNA BROWNING.
MARIAN GREY.
WEST LAWN.
EDITH LYLE.
MILDRED.
DAISY THORNTON.
FOREST HOUSE.
CHATEAU D'OR.
MADELINE.
QUEENIE HETHERTON.
CHRISTMAS STORIES.
BESSIE'S FORTUNE.
GRETCHEN.
MARGUERITE.
DR. HATHERN'S DAUGHTERS.
MRS. HALLAM'S COMPANION.
PAUL RALSTON.
THE TRACY DIAMONDS.
THE CROMPTONS. (NEW)

"Mrs. Holmes is a peculiarly pleasant and fascinating writer. Her books are always entertaining, and she has the rare faculty of enlisting the sympathy and affections of her readers, and of holding their attention to her pages with deep and absorbing interest."

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G.W. Dillingham Co., Publishers,
NEW YORK.

“Here by this grave I promise all you ask.”

The Cromptons

By

MARY J. HOLMES

G.W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY
PUBLISHERS    NEW YORK

Copyright, 1899, 1901,

By Mrs. Mary J. Holmes.

[All rights reserved.]

The Cromptons.     Issued August, 1902.

Contents

PART I
CHAPTER I. THE STRANGER AT THE BROCK HOUSE
CHAPTER II. THE PALMETTO CLEARING
CHAPTER III. THE INTERVIEW
CHAPTER IV. HOPING AND WAITING
CHAPTER V. MISS DORY
CHAPTER VI. THE SERVICES
CHAPTER VII. COL. CROMPTON
CHAPTER VIII. THE CHILD OF THE CLEARING
CHAPTER IX. THE COLONEL AND JAKE
CHAPTER X. EUDORA

PART II
CHAPTER I. HOWARD CROMPTON TO JACK HARCOURT
CHAPTER II. JACK HARCOURT TO HOWARD CROMPTON
CHAPTER III. ELOISE
CHAPTER IV. THE ACCIDENT
CHAPTER V. AMY
CHAPTER VI. AT MRS. BIGGS'S
CHAPTER VII. RUBY ANN PATRICK
CHAPTER VIII. MRS. BIGGS'S REMINISCENCES
CHAPTER IX. LETTER FROM REV. CHARLES MASON
CHAPTER X. PART SECOND OF REV. MR. MASON'S LETTER
CHAPTER XI. SUNDAY CALLS
CHAPTER XII. THE MARCH OF EVENTS
CHAPTER XIII. GETTING READY FOR THE RUMMAGE SALE
CHAPTER XIV. THE FIRST SALE
CHAPTER XV. AT THE RUMMAGE
CHAPTER XVI. THE AUCTION

PART III
CHAPTER I. THE BEGINNING OF THE END
CHAPTER II. THE LITTLE RED CLOAK
CHAPTER III. ELOISE AT THE CROMPTON HOUSE
CHAPTER IV. THE SHADOW OF DEATH
CHAPTER V. LOOKING FOR A WILL
CHAPTER VI. IN FLORIDA
CHAPTER VII. IN THE PALMETTO CLEARING
CHAPTER VIII. THE LITTLE HAIR TRUNK
CHAPTER IX. WHAT HOWARD FOUND
CHAPTER X. HOWARD'S TEMPTATION
CHAPTER XI. CONCLUSION

THE CROMPTONS