[Frontispiece: As he opened the door...]
_As he opened the door, he
started back in surprise.
"Fore God" he said "did I
not know, I should think it
Lord Carthew in
life again"_
HEARTS AND
THE HIGHWAY
A ROMANCE OF THE ROAD
_First set forth by Lady Katharine Clanranald and Sir
Hugh Richmond and now transcribed by
Cyrus Townsend Brady_
Author of "The Island of Regeneration," "The
Better Man," etc.
WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS
By F. C. YOHN
A. L. BURT COMPANY
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
COPYRIGHT, 1909, BY
THE CROWELL PUBLISHING COMPANY
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
_Published, March_ 1911
Dedicated to
MRS. HARRIETTE ROSCOE ELLARD
AND HER DEVOTED ASSOCIATES
IN THE LIVELIEST AND MOST ENTHUSIASTIC
WOMAN'S AUXILIARY SOCIETY THAT I KNOW
PREFACE
This story is exactly what it purports to be, a romance, as the
reader who cares to follow the Highway with the Hero and Heroine
whose adventures thereon are hereafter set forth will see. It makes
no pretence at being an historical novel, and yet, perhaps, it is
only fair to the Manes of Lady Grizel Ogilby to point out that she
herself once played a dashing rôle, somewhat like that attributed to
Lady Katharine Clanranald, in a similar emergency in Scottish history
and at a similar crisis in the family fortunes. I am just a little
tired, for the nonce, of the problem story, and I have turned to this
with a keen relish in which I humbly trust the reader will share.
Variety is the life of literature: if I confined myself to one kind
of books, or to one kind of sermons, I should be a dead author and a
dead preacher as well.
The relaxations of life are not to be found in idleness, but in doing
things that are different. It is a far cry from _The Island of
Regeneration_ to _The Better Man_ and from _The Better Man_ to
_Hearts and the Highway_. And it will be a farther cry, perhaps, to
the next story! Here's hoping that each may find a place and welcome
in some gracious reader's heart.
CYRUS TOWNSEND BRADY.
ST. GEORGE'S RECTORY, KANSAS CITY, Mo.,
New Year's Day, 1911.
CONTENTS
BOOK I
THE WINNING OF A HUSBAND
_As Set Forth by the Lady of the Quest,
with a Necessary Interlude by the
Gentleman in Person_
CHAPTER I
_In Which I, Lady Katharine Clanranald, Come to a Desperate but Manly
Resolution_