CHAPTER VIII.
THE SQUIRE'S SOUL.
Two years passed, and a third winter.

The church was now well on its way to restoration.

The roof had been repaired, the defective timbers removed and sound ones inserted, the south wall strengthened with three buttresses, the foundations on that side examined and shored up.

The old Squire did not halt here.

Furniture arrived for the interior; a handsome altar cloth, a small gilt cross, a dozen hanging lamps, an oaken lectern, cushions, hymn-books, a big new Bible with purple book-markers.