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  DOCTOR FORESTER

  About this Book

  (20 chapters, 65,000 words)

  Doctor Forester, a medical man only twenty-five years old, has come to a lonely part of Wales to escape from an event in his recent past that has caused him much hurt. So he has more on his mind than worrying about strange noises behind his bedroom wall in the old castle where he is staying.

  A young woman who shares part of the journey with him is staying in the same village. He is deeply attracted to her, and believes that she is equally attracted to him. But he soon has every reason to think that his old school friend Jack is also courting her.

  Written and taking place in the early 1900s, this romantic mystery is a mix of excitement and heartbreak. What is the secret of Hildick Castle? And can Doctor Forester rid himself of the past that now haunts his life?

  Mrs. O. F. Walton was a prolific writer in the late 1800s, and this Lighthouse abridged edition captures all of the original writer’s insight into what makes a memorable story.

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  Ghosts of the past kept flitting through his brain. Dark shadows which he tried to chase away seemed to pursue him. Here these ghosts were to be laid; here those shadows were to be dispelled; here that closed chapter was to be buried for ever. So he fought long and hard with the phantoms of the past until the assertive clock near his bedroom door announced that it was two o’clock.

  Doctor Forester

  Abridged Edition

  Mrs. O. F. Walton

  First published in England c1906

  This Abridged Edition © 2015 Chris Wright

  Illustrations © Simon Wright

  E-BOOK ISBN: ISBN: 978-0-9932760-0-2

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  Was I Right? ISBN: 978-0-9932760-1-9

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  This book is a work of fiction. Named locations are used fictitiously, and characters and incidents are the product of the original author's imagination. The names of places and people are from the original work. Any resemblance to actual events or places or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

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  Table of Contents

  Introduction

  The Visitors at Hildick

  Chapter One: Garroch

  Chapter Two: Among the Ruins

  Chapter Three: An Old Friend

  Chapter Four: Footsteps?

  Chapter Five: The Old Watchtower

  Chapter Six: The Strange Man

  Chapter Seven: Sunday at Hildick

  Chapter Eight: A Midnight Visitor

  Chapter Nine: A Strange Night

  Chapter Ten: White Heather

  Chapter Eleven: A Meeting Disturbed

  Chapter Twelve: Who Chose the Hymn?

  Chapter Thirteen: Where Can He Be?

  Chapter Fourteen: Watching the Tide

  Chapter Fifteen: Whom Shall Tell?

  Chapter Sixteen: At the Tent Door

  Chapter Seventeen: The Spiral Staircase

  Chapter Eighteen: The Secret Drawer

  Chapter Nineteen: What Do You Advise?