THE DEEMSTER

HALL CAINE

AUTHOR OF

"THE SHADOW OF A CRIME," "A SON OF HAGAR," "THE CHRISTIAN," ETC.

" Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women."
" Oh, wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from the body of this death ?"

A NEW EDITION LONDON

CHATTO & WINDUS

1898

[note originally published in 1887 - I have used this edition, published as a 6d novel, as most convenient to scan]

Note

MANY thanks are due to my friend and fellow-countryman the Author of " Fo'c's'le Yarns " for some racy touches of Manx character, and to Mr. A. W. Moore, Member of the Manx Legislature, and Sir James Gell, Attorney-General in the Isle of Man, for much valuable information concerning the extraordinary Powers of the old Spritual Baronies of that island, the scene of my story.

CONTENTS

	CHAP.	PAGE
I.	THE DEATH OF OLD EWAN	1
II.	A MAN CHILD IS BORN	7
III.	THE CHRISTENING OF YOUNG EWAN	10
IV.	THE DEEMSTER OF MAN	13
V.	THE MANXMAN'S BISHOP	16
VI.	THE COSY NEST AT BISHOP'S COURT	20
VII.	DANNY, THE MADCAP	25
VIII.	PASSING THE LOVE OF WOMEN	29
IX.	THE SERVICE ON THE SHORE.	33
X.	THE FIRST NIGHT WITH THE HERRINGS.	35
XI.	THE HERRING BREAKFAST	39
XII.	DAN'S PENANCE	41
XIII.	HOW EWAN MOURNED FOR HIS WIFE	43
XIV.	WRESTLING WITH FATE	44
XV.	THE LIE THAT EWAN TOLD	47
XVI.	THE PLOUGHING MATCH.	50
XVII.	THE WRONG WAY WITH DAN	54
XVIII.	THE BLIND WOMAN'S SECOND SIGHT	55
XIX.	HOW EWAN FOUND DAN	58
XX.	BLIND PASSION AND PAIN	60
XXI.	THE VOICE IN THE NIGHT	66
XXII.	ALONE, ALONE-ALL, ALL ALONE!.	70
XXIII.	ALONE ON A WIDE, WIDE-SEA	74
XXIV.	" THERE'S GOLD ON THE CUSHAGS YET"	77
XXV.	A RESURRECTION INDEED	78
XXVI.	HOW EWAN CAME TO CHURCH	82
XXVII.	HOW THE NEWS CAME TO THE BISHOP	87
XXVIII.	THE CHILD GHOST IN THE HOUSE	91
XXIX	BY BISHOP'S LAW OR DEEMSTER'S	94
XXX.	THE DEEMSTER'S INQUEST	97
XXXI.	FATHER AND SON	101
XXXII.	DIVINATION	105
XXXIII.	KIDNAPPED	108
XXXIV.	A RUDE TRIBUNAL	112
XXXV.	THE COURT OF GENERAL GAOL DELIVERY	115
XXXVI.	CUT OFF FROM THE PEOPLE .	118
	THE BRIEF RELATION OF DANIEL MYLREA
XXXVII.	OF HIS OUTCAST STATE	123
XXXVIII.	OF HIS WAY OF LIFE	125
XXXIX.	OF THE GHOSTLY HAND UPON HIM	127
XL.	OF HIS GREAT LONELINESS	130
XLI.	OF HOW HE KEPT HIS MANHOOD	134
XLII.	OF THE BREAKING OF THE CURSE	137
XLIII.	OF HIS GREAT RESOLVE.	140
XLIV.	THE SWEATING SICKNESS	142
XLV.	"OUR FATHER, WHICH ART IN HEAVEN"	151

See also Notes

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