title: A Stranger in the Cove (Templeton Cove Stories)
author:  Rachel Brimble 
description: Rachel Brimble is a Brit living near the famous Georgian City of Bath, England. Married with two daughters, Rachel writes contemporary romantic suspense and Victorian romance novels. When she's not writing, she enjoys reading, socializing or watching US crime dramas and UK period dramas. Having succeeded in having at least one novel published per year since 2007, Rachel hopes to keep doing that for many, many years to come. She endeavors to deliver better and better books for readers to enjoy.
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  # way Down In Lonesome Cove
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Charles Egbert Craddock
  
  
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  'WAY DOWN IN LONESOME COVE
  
  
  By Charles Egbert Craddock
  
  
  1895
  
  
  One memorable night in Lonesome Cove the ranger of the county
  
  
  entered upon a momentous crisis in his life. What hour it was he could
  
  
  hardly have said, for the primitive household reckoned time by the sun
  
  
  when it shone, by the domestic routine when no better might be. It was
  
  
  late. The old crone in the chimney-corner nodded over her knitting. In
  
  
  the trundle-bed at the farther end of the shadowy room were transverse
  
  
  billows under the quilts, which intimated that the small children were
  
  
  numerous enough for the necessity of sleeping crosswise. He had smoked
  
  
  out many pipes, and at last knocked the cinder from the bowl. The great
  
  
  hickory logs had burned asunder and fallen from the stone