The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Sign Of The Red Cross, by Evelyn Everett-Green
THE SIGN OF THE RED CROSS:
A Tale of Old London
by
Evelyn Everett-Green.
[CHAPTER I.] A WARNING WHISPER.
[CHAPTER II.] LONDON'S YOUNG CITIZENS.
[CHAPTER III.] DRAWING NEARER.
[CHAPTER IV.] JAMES HARMER'S RESOLVE.
[CHAPTER V.] THE PLOT AND ITS PUNISHMENT.
[CHAPTER VI.] NEIGHBOURS IN NEED.
[CHAPTER VII.] SISTERS OF MERCY.
[CHAPTER VIII.] IN THE DOOMED CITY.
[CHAPTER IX.] JOSEPH'S PLAN.
[CHAPTER X.] WITHOUT THE WALLS.
[CHAPTER XI.] LOVE IN DIFFICULTIES.
[CHAPTER XII.] EXCITING DISCOVERIES.
[CHAPTER XIII.] HAPPY MEETINGS.
[CHAPTER XIV.] BRIGHTER DAYS.
[CHAPTER XV.] A CHRISTMAS WEDDING.
[CHAPTER XVI.] A FLAMING CITY.
[CHAPTER XVII.] SCENES OF TERROR.
[CHAPTER XVIII.] WHAT BEFELL DINAH.
[CHAPTER XIX.] JUST IN TIME.
[CHAPTER XX.] THE FLAMES STAYED.
[CHAPTER I. A WARNING WHISPER.]
"I don't believe a word of it!" cried the Master Builder, with some heat of manner. "It is just an old scare, the like of which I have heard a hundred times ere now. Some poor wretch dies of the sweating sickness, or, at worst, of the spotted fever, and in a moment all men's mouths are full of the plague! I don't believe a word of it!"
"Heaven send you may be right, good friend," quoth Rachel Harmer, as she sat beside her spinning wheel, and spoke to the accompaniment of its pleasant hum. "And yet, methinks, the vice and profligacy of this great city, and the lewdness and wanton wickedness of the Court, are enough to draw down upon us the judgments of Almighty God. The sin and the shame of it must be rising up before Him day and night."