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  THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

  SWANSTON EDITION

  VOLUME XIX

  _Of this SWANSTON EDITION in Twenty-five Volumes of the Works of ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Two Thousand and Sixty Copies have been printed, of which only Two Thousand Copies are for sale._

  _This is No._ ...........

  R. L. S. AND OTHERS IN THE SANS-SOUCI SALOON, BUTARITARI,GILBERT ISLANDS]

  THE WORKS OF ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

  VOLUME NINETEEN

  LONDON: PUBLISHED BY CHATTO AND WINDUS: IN ASSOCIATION WITH CASSELL AND COMPANY LIMITED: WILLIAM HEINEMANN: AND LONGMANS GREEN AND COMPANY MDCCCCXII

  ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

  CONTENTS

  THE EBB-TIDE

  PAGE NOTE BY MR. LLOYD OSBOURNE 3

  PART I.--THE TRIO

  CHAPTER I. NIGHT ON THE BEACH 7

  II. MORNING ON THE BEACH--THE THREE LETTERS 19

  III. THE OLD CALABOOSE--DESTINY AT THE DOOR 29

  IV. THE YELLOW FLAG 39

  V. THE CARGO OF CHAMPAGNE 46

  VI. THE PARTNERS 69

  PART II.--THE QUARTETTE

  VII. THE PEARL-FISHER 81

  VIII. BETTER ACQUAINTANCE 96

  IX. THE DINNER PARTY 109

  X. THE OPEN DOOR 118

  XI. DAVID AND GOLIATH 131

  XII. A TAIL-PIECE 151

  WEIR OF HERMISTON

  Introductory 159

  I. Life and Death of Mrs. Weir 161

  II. Father and Son 175

  III. In the Matter of the Hanging of Duncan Jopp 181

  IV. Opinions of the Bench 196

  V. Winter on the Moors: 1. At Hermiston 205 2. Kirstie 208 3. A Border Family 212

  VI. A Leaf from Christina's Psalm-Book 228

  VII. Enter Mephistopheles 253

  VIII. A Nocturnal Visit 270

  IX. At the Weaver's Stone 278

  Sir Sidney Colvin's Note 284

  Glossary of Scots Words 297

  THE EBB-TIDE

  _A Trio and Quartette_

  WRITTEN IN COLLABORATION WITH LLOYD OSBOURNE

  "_There is a tide in the affairs of men_"

  NOTE.--_On the pronunciation of a name very frequently repeated in thesepages, the reader may take for a guide_--

  "It was the schooner _Farallone_."

  _R. L. S.--L. O._