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Title: Castle Gay
Date of first publication: 1930
Author: John Buchan (1875-1940)
Date first posted: August 4 2012
Date last updated: August 4 2012
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BOOKS BY
JOHN BUCHAN
_The Thirty-Nine Steps_
_Greenmantle_
_Mr. Standfast_
_The Path of the King_
_Huntingtower_
_Midwinter_
_The Three Hostages_
_John Macnab_
_The Dancing Floor_
_Witch Wood_
_The Runagates Club_
_The Courts of the Morning_
_also_
_The Half-hearted_
_The Moon Endureth_
HODDER AND
STOUGHTON
LTD., LONDON
CASTLE GAY
BY
JOHN BUCHAN
HODDER AND STOUGHTON
LONDON MCMXXX
FIRST PRINTED JULY 1930
_Made and Printed in Great Britain for
Hodder and Stoughton Limited by
Hazell, Watson & Viney, Ltd., London and Aylesbury._
TO
SIR ALEXANDER GRANT, BART.,
OF LOGIE AND RELUGAS
THIS COMEDY IS INSCRIBED WITH
GRATITUDE AND AFFECTION
_The earlier doings of Dougal, Jaikie,
and Mr Dickson McCunn will be found
in a novel entitled “Huntingtower”_
J. B.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. TELLS OF A RUGBY THREE-QUARTER 9
II. INTRODUCES A GREAT MAN IN ADVERSITY 26
III. THE BACK HOUSE OF THE GARROCH 45
IV. THE RECONNAISSANCE OF CASTLE GAY 59
V. INTRODUCES A LADY 74
VI. THE TROUBLES OF A PRIVATE SECRETARY 86
VII. BEGINNING OF A GREAT MAN’S EXILE 107
VIII. CASIMIR 121
IX. THE FIRST DAY OF THE HEJIRA–THE INN AT
WATERMEETING 137
X. THE SECOND DAY OF THE HEJIRA–THE FORD
CAR 158
XI. THE TROUBLES OF A JOURNALIST 172
XII. PORTAWAY–THE GREEN TREE 186
XIII. PORTAWAY–RED DAVIE 201
XIV. PORTAWAY–ALISON 214
XV. DISAPPEARANCE OF MR CRAW 231
XVI. ENEMY’S COUNTRY 248
XVII. JAIKIE OPENS HIS COMMUNICATIONS 266
XVIII. SOLWAY SANDS 285
XIX. MR CRAW IS MASTER IN HIS OWN HOUSE 296
XX. VALEDICTORY 315
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