George Barr McCutcheon
Quill's Window
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066230586
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I — THE FORBIDDEN ROCK
CHAPTER II — THE STORY THE OLD MAN TOLD
CHAPTER VI — CHARLIE WEBSTER ENTERTAINS
CHAPTER VII — COURTNEY APPEARS IN PUBLIC
CHAPTER IX — A MID-OCTOBER DAY
CHAPTER X — THE CHIMNEY CORNER
CHAPTER XI — THANE VISITS TWO HOUSES
CHAPTER XII — WORDS AND LETTEBS
CHAPTER XIII — THE OLD INDIAN TRAIL
CHAPTER XV — THE FACE AT THE WINDOW
CHAPTER XVIII — MR. GILFILLAN IS PUZZLED
CHAPTER XIX — BRINGING UP THE PAST
CHAPTER XX — THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ROSABEL VICK
CHAPTER XXI — OUT OF THE NIGHT
CHAPTER XXII — THE THROWER OF STONES
CHAPTER XXIII — A MESSAGE AND ITS ANSWER
CHAPTER XXIV — AT QUILL'S WINDOW
CHAPTER I—THE FORBIDDEN ROCK
A young man and an old one sat in the shade of the willows beside the wide, still river. The glare of a hot August sun failed to penetrate the shelter in which they idled; out upon the slow-gliding river it beat relentlessly, creating a pale, thin vapour that clung close to the shimmering surface and dazzled the eye with an ever-shifting glaze. The air was lifeless, sultry, stifling; not a leaf, not a twig in the tall, drooping willows moved unless stirred by the passage of some vagrant bird.
The older man sat on the ground, his back against the trunk of a tree that grew so near to the edge that it seemed on the point of toppling over to shatter the smooth, green mirror below. Some of its sturdy exposed roots reached down from the bank into the water, where they caught and held the drift from upstream—reeds and twigs and matted grass—a dirty, sickly mass that swished lazily on the flank