The Hunted Outlaw, or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy
Psychology strips the soul and, having laid it bare, confidently classifies every phase of its mentality. It has the spring of every emotion carefully pigeon-holed; it puts a mental finger upon every passion; it maps out the soul into tabulated territories of feeling; and probes to the earliest stirrings of motive.
A crime startles the community. The perpetrator is educated, wise, enjoys the respect of his fellows. His position is high: his home is happy: he has no enemies.
Psychology is stunned. The deed is incredible. Of all men, this was the last who could be suspected of mental aberration. The mental diagnosis decreed him healthy. He was a man to grace society, do credit to religion, and leave a fair and honored name behind him.
The tabulation is at fault.
The soul has its conventional pose when the eyes of the street are upon it. Psychology's plummet is too short to reach those depths where motive has its sudden and startling birth.
Life begins with the fairest promise, and ends in darkness.
It is the unexpected that stuns us.
Heredity, environment and temperament lead us into easy calculations of assured repose and strength, and permanency of mental and moral equilibrium.
The act of a moment makes sardonic mockery of all our predictions.
The whole mentality is not computable.
Look searchingly at happiness, and note with sadness that a tear stains her cheek.
A dark, sinister thread runs through the web of life.
Anonymous
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THE HUNTED OUTLAW
OR
DONALD MORRISON, THE CANADIAN ROB ROY
PROLOGUE.
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II. DONALD MORRISON APPEARS ON THE SCENE.
CHAPTER III. A LITTLE GIRL WITH YELLOW HAIR.
CHAPTER IV. "MINNIE, MINNIE," SHE SAID, "I MUST GUARD MY SECRET."
CHAPTER V. LOVE'S YOUNG DREAM.
CHAPTER VI. "SUCH PARTINGS AS CRUSH THE LIFE OUT OF YOUNG HEARTS."
CHAPTER VII. "TO THE WEST, TO THE WEST, THE LAND OF THE FREE."
"Bully for Donald!"
CHAPTER VIII. HARD TIMES AT HOME.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X. "BE IT EVER SO HUMBLE, THERE'S NO PLACE LIKE HOME."
CHAPTER XI. "THE PRIDE OF THE VILLAGE."
CHAPTER XII. MODEST, SIMPLE, SWEET.
Minnie is in her new home in Springfield.
CHAPTER XIII. A LETTER FROM DONALD.
CHAPTER XIV. THE BEGINNING OF THE TROUBLE.
CHAPTER XV. A SHOT IN THE DARKNESS.
The Duquettes took possession of the farm.
CHAPTER XVI. "BURNT A HOLE IN THE NIGHT."
This was the second act in the drama.
"Good morning, Mr. A——."
CHAPTER XIX. THE TRAGEDY.
CHAPTER XX. AFTERWARDS.
CHAPTER XXI. THE BLOW FALLS.
"Father, father, what is the matter? What ails you?"
CHAPTER XXII. WHAT WAS DONALD ABOUT.
CHAPTER XXIV. TELLS HOW THE CONSTABLES ENJOYED THEMSELVES.
CHAPTER XXV. PROOF AGAINST BRIBES!
CHAPTER XXVI. THE REWARD FAILS.
CHAPTER XXVII
THE GOVERNMENT TAKES OFF ITS COAT.
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE HUNTED OUTLAW.
The expedition arrived in Stornaway upon a raw morning in April.
CHAPTER XXIX. DONALD IN THE WOODS OF MEGANTIC.
CHAPTER XXX. SECOND WEEK OF THE SEARCH—MAJOR DUGAS BECOMES SEVERE.
CHAPTER XXXI. "MANY WATERS CANNOT QUENCH LOVE."
CHAPTER XXXIII. THE EXPEDITION IS BROKEN UP.
CHAPTER XXXIV. CARPENTER ON THE SCENT—A NARROW ESCAPE.
CHAPTER XXXV. ANOTHER TRUCE ASKED FOR.
CHAPTER XXXVI. SHOTS IN THE DARKNESS—DONALD IS CAPTURED.
CONCLUSION.