[Transcriber's note: This is the third of a series of four novels bySusan Warner, all of which are in the Project Gutenberg collection:
1. What She Could
2. Opportunities
3. The House in Town
4. Trading]
"No man that warreth entangleth himself with the affairs of this life;that he may please him who hath chosen him to be a soldier."—2 TIM.ii. 4.
CHAPTER I | CHAPTER II | CHAPTER III | CHAPTER IV | CHAPTER V | CHAPTER VI |
CHAPTER VII | CHAPTER VIII | CHAPTER IX | CHAPTER X | CHAPTER XI | CHAPTER XII |
"Oh Norton! Oh Norton! do you know what has happened?"
Matilda had left the study and rushed out into the dining-room to tellher news, if indeed it were news to Norton. She had heard his step.Norton seemed in a preoccupied state of mind.
"Yes!" he said. "I know that confounded shoemaker has left something inthe heel of my boot which is killing me."