Prisoners of Conscience

by Amelia E. Barr

PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE

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“HE REPEATED ALL THE BLESSED WORDS.” (See p. 230.)

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PRISONERS OF
CONSCIENCE

By

AMELIA E. BARR

NEW YORK
THE CENTURY CO.
1897

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Copyright, 1896, 1897, by

The Century Co.

The De Vinne Press.

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CONTENTS
BOOK FIRST–LIOT BORSON
	PAGE
I.	The Weaving of Doom	[3]
II.	Jealousy Cruel as the Grave	[23]
III.	A Sentence for Life	[44]
IV.	The Door Wide Open	[62]
BOOK SECOND–DAVID BORSON
V.	A New Life	[85]
VI.	Kindred–the Quick and the Dead	[107]
VII.	So Far and No Farther	[127]
VIII.	The Justification of Death	[144]
IX.	A Sacrifice Accepted	[169]
X.	In the Fourth Watch	[192]
XI.	The Lowest Hell	[210]
XII.	“At Last it is Peace”	[220]

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ILLUSTRATIONS
“He Repeated all the Blessed Words”	[Frontispiece]
A Lerwick Man	[33]
“The Waters of the Great Deep”	[55]
“‘I Want to Find my Father’s People’”	[91]
Nanna and Vala	[103]
“But she Held her Peace”	[133]
At the Kirk	[137]
Peat-gatherers	[161]
Groat	[193]
On the Way to Nanna’s Cottage	[223]
“Went in and out among his Mates”	[237]

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