I. LOVER OR BROTHER 5

II. THE BEGINNING OF STRIFE. 22

III. THE MASTER OF ASKE 37

IV. THE master's LOVE 54

V. SARAH'S SORROW 72

VI. STEVE'S FAIR CHANCE. 95

VII. ELEANOR'S FLIGHT , Il6

VIII. ANTHONY ASKE's REVENGE I40

IX. IN THE SHADOW 163

X. THE HAND THAT TURNS BACK. 181

XI. SARAH AND STEVE'S TROUBLES 20O

XII. BURLEY AND ASKE 225

XIII. A QUESTION OF DUTY 243

XIV. SHADOWS GROWING BRIGHTER 262

XV. BEN HOLDEN's marriage 280

XVI. ONLY ONE LOVE 30O



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BETWEEN TWO LOVES



CHAPTER I.
LOVER OR BROTHER?

"With cylinder and beam,
And fine conducting skill.
Torture the straitened steam
To work thy reasoned will.
"Then, 'mid thy workshop's dusty din
Where Titan steam hath sway.
Croon to thyself a song within,
Or pour the lusty lay."

Prof. Blackib*

"Their love in early infancy began,
And rose as childhood ripened into man.'*

Success is the one thing forever good, that
success which is the reward of the self-helpful
and the persevering; and standing in Burley
Mill, Jonathan Burley was not inclined to
underrate either his own merits or the reward
they had brought him. The clickity-clackity
clickity-clackity of the looms, the whirr-r-r-
ing of the belts and drums, and the hum-m-m-

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6 BETWEEN TWO LOVES.
