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A CHANGED MAN AND OTHER TALES

Contents:
Prefatory Note A Changed Man The Waiting Supper Alicia's Diary The
Grave by the Handpost Enter a Dragoon A Tryst at an Ancient
Earthwork What the Shepherd Saw A Committee Man of 'The Terror'
Master John Horseleigh, Knight The Duke's Reappearance A Mere
Interlude

PREFATORY NOTE

I reprint in this volume, for what they may be worth, a dozen minor
novels that have been published in the periodical press at various dates
in the past, in order to render them accessible to readers who desire to
have them in the complete series issued by my publishers. For aid in
reclaiming some of the narratives I express my thanks to the proprietors
and editors of the newspapers and magazines in whose pages they first
appeared.
T. H. August 1913.

A CHANGED MAN

CHAPTER I

The person who, next to the actors themselves, chanced to know most
of their story, lived just below 'Top o' Town' (as the spot was called) in
an old substantially-built house, distinguished among its neighbours by
having an oriel window on the first floor, whence could be obtained a
raking view of the High Street, west and east, the former including
Laura's dwelling, the end of the Town Avenue hard by (in which were
played the odd pranks hereafter to be mentioned), the Port-Bredy road
rising westwards, and the turning that led to the cavalry barracks where
the Captain was quartered. Looking eastward down the town from the
same favoured gazebo, the long perspective of houses declined and
dwindled till they merged in the highway across the moor. The white

riband of road disappeared over Grey's Bridge a quarter of a mile off, to
plunge into innumerable rustic windings, shy shades, and solitary
undulations up hill and down dale for one hundred and twenty miles till
it exhibited itself at Hyde Park Corner as