The Heiress of Wyvern Court

CHAPTER I.

IN THE RAILWAY CARRIAGE--NEW FRIENDS.

"Well, little friend, and where do you hail from?"

The speaker was a merry-faced, brown-eyed boy of eleven, with curly brown hair--just the school-boy all over.

He had leaped into a railway carriage with cricket-bat, fishing-rod, and a knowing-looking little hamper, which he deposited on the seat beside him...