The Wind Before the Dawn

by Dell H. Munger

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THE WIND BEFORE THE DAWN

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“THE GIRL ALSO KNELT AT HIS SIDE RENDERING SUCH ASSISTANCE AS WAS IN HER POWER”

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THE WIND BEFORE

THE DAWN

BY DELL H. MUNGER

A. L. BURT COMPANY

Publishers New York

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Copyright, 1912, by

Doubleday, Page & Company

All rights reserved, including that of

translation into foreign languages,

including the Scandinavian

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CONTENTS

I	Castles in Spain	[3]
II	Brushing up to go to Topeka	[43]
III	Reforms not easy to Discuss	[74]
IV	A cultured man	[92]
V	Reaching hungry hands toward a symbol	[115]
VI	“Didn’t take ’em long”	[131]
VII	Erasing her blackboard	[150]
VIII	Cyclones	[174]
IX	“Against her instincts, against her better judgment, against her will”	[195]
X	Philosophy of Elizabeth’s life voiced	[210]
XI	“Wives, submit yourselves unto your husbands, as unto the Lord”	[224]
XII	“Pore little woman”	[266]
XIII	“Ennobled by the reflected story of another’s goodness and love”	[291]
XIV	Mortgages of soul	[317]
XV	Hugh Noland	[353]
XVI	Revivifying fires	[356]
XVII	Adjusting domestic to social ideals	[372]
XVIII	The child of her body	[399]
XIX	“Her wages, food and clothing she must accept”	[419]
XX	The cream-jars of her life	[426]
XXI	Bound to the stake	[458]
XXII	“There are some things we have to settle for ourselves”	[467]
XXIII	“At any cost”	[496]
XXIV	Facing consequences	[506]
XXV	“The weight of a dollaree and out of debt don’t forget that”	[534]
XXVI	“Was—was my papa here then?”	[540]
XXVII	To do over, and to do better, was the opportunity offered	[548]
XXVIII	“Till death do you part” considered	[562]

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THE WIND BEFORE THE DAWN