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Will of the Mill, by George Manville Fenn
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Title: Will of the Mill
Author: George Manville Fenn
Release Date: May 8, 2007 [EBook #21376]
Language: English
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Will of the Mill, by George Manville Fenn.
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A Huguenot settlement in the Derbyshire dales, in the middle of England, in the mid-nineteenth century.
The Vicar's son, and the mill-owner's son are great friends. They become friends with a visiting artist, who is lodging in the house of one of the key-workers at the Mill, where they manufacture silk. The artist falls down an old mine-shaft up in the hills, and the boys find him. At home they are missed and a rescue party is sent out, and finds them all.
One day the mill mysteriously goes on fire, and, equally mysteriously, the fire pump has been disabled. Just in time it is repaired by the man the artist is staying with. The man's name was originally Boileau, but like so many Huguenots, he has anglicised it to Drinkwater.
Drinkwater goes mad, and has an obsessional hatred for the mill-owner. It is thought possible that he actually set the fire having pre