When It Was Dark

The Story of a Great Conspiracy

By

Guy Thorne

G. P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1906

Copyright, 1904
BY
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS
Published, January, 1904
Reprinted, May, 1904; September, 1904
December, 1904; September, 1905
October, 1905; November, 1905; January, 1906
The Knickerbocker Press, New York

[CONTENTS]

BOOK I.

CHAPTER PAGE
I. An Incident by Way of Prologue[1]
II. In the Vicar's Study[6]
III. "I Think he is a Good Man"[23]
IV. The Smoke Cloud at Dawn[33]
V. A Lost Soul[45]
VI. The Whisper[56]
VII. Last Words at Walktown[69]
VIII. A Dinner at the Pannier d'Or[77]
IX. Inauguration[95]
X. The Resurrection Sermon[107]
XI. "Neither do I Condemn Thee"[116]
XII. Powers of Good and Evil[126]

BOOK II.

CHAPTER PAGE
I. While London was Sleeping[141]
II. Avoiding the Flower Pattern on the Carpet[165]
III. "I, Joseph"[178]
IV. The Domestic Chaplain's Testimony[184]
V. Deus, Deus Meus, Quare Dereliquisti![194]
VI. Harness the Horses; and Get up, ye Horsemen, and
Stand forth with your Helmets, Furbish the Spears,
and Put on the Brigandines.—Jer. xlvi: 4
[205]
VII. The Hour of Chaos[212]
VIII. The First Links[225]
IX. Particular Instances, Contrasting the Old Lady
and the Special Correspondent
[233]
X. The Triumph of Sir Robert Llwellyn[245]
XI. Progress[256]
XII. A Soul alone on the Sea-Shore[262]

BOOK III.

CHAPTER PAGE
I. What it Meant to the World's Women[271]
II. Cyril Hands Redux[283]
III. All ye Inhabitants of the World, and Dwellers on
the Earth, See ye, when He Lifteth up an Ensign on
the Mountains—Is. xviii: 3
[289]
IV. A Luncheon Party[302]
V. By the Tower of Hippicus[322]
VI. Under the Eastern Stars: towards Gerizim[342]
VII. The Last Meeting[356]
VIII. Death Coming with One Grace[364]
IX. At Walktown Again[376]
Epilogue[385]