Thorns of regret

CHAPTER I.

ASHES TO ASHES.

Slowly and solemnly the village church-bells tolled while the funeral cortège wound its way to the grave, followed by the long train of mourners.

The richest man in the country was dead, and the whole neighborhood had turned out to do honor to his obsequies.

The chief mourners were his two sons, Byrd and Delmar Barrington, his widowed sis...