Copyright, 1908,
BY ARTHUR STRINGER.
Copyright, 1907,
BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.
All Rights Reserved.
I
It's the bad that's in the best of us
Leaves the saint so like the rest of us:
It's the good in the darkest curst of us
Redeems and saves the worst of us.
II
It's the muddle of hope and madness,
It's the tangle of good and badness,
It's the lunacy linked with sanity,
Makes up and mocks Humanity!
A. S.
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | |
| I. | [THE END OF THE TETHER] |
| II. | [THE AZURE COAST] |
| III. | [THE SHADOWING PAST] |
| IV. | [THE WIDENING ROAD] |
| V. | [THE GREAT DIVIDE] |
| VI. | [THE WOMAN SPEAKS] |
| VII. | [OUR FRIEND THE ENEMY] |
| VIII. | ["FOREIGNERS ARE FOOLS"] |
| IX. | [THE LARK IN THE RUINS] |
| X. | [THE TIGHTENING COIL] |
| XI. | [THE INTOXICATION OF WAR] |
| XII. | [THE DOORWAY OF SURPRISE] |
| XIII. | ["THE FOLLY OF GRANDEUR"] |
| XIV. | [AWAKENING VOICES] |
| XV. | [WIRELESS MESSAGES] |
| XVI. | [BROKEN INSULATION] |
| XVII. | [THE TANGLED SKEIN] |
| XVIII. | [THE SEVERED KNOT] |
| XIX. | [THE ULTIMATE OUTCAST] |
| XX. | [THE SPIDER AND THE FLY] |
| XXI. | [THE PIT OF DESPAIR] |
| XXII. | [THE ENTERING WEDGE] |
| XXIII. | [THE WAKING CIRCUIT] |
| XXIV. | [THE GHOSTS OF THOUGHT] |
| XXV. | [THE RULING PASSION] |
| XXVI. | [THE CROWN OF IRON] |
| XXVII. | [THE STRAITS OF CHANCE] |
| XXVIII. | [THE HUMAN ELEMENT] |
| XXIX. | [THE LAST DITCH] |
| XXX. | [ONE YEAR LATER—AN EPILOGUE] |