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By LOUIS TRACY


[THE WINGS OF THE MORNING]
[THE CAPTAIN OF THE KANSAS]
[THE WHEEL O’ FORTUNE]
[A SON OF THE IMMORTALS]
[CYNTHIA’S CHAUFFEUR]
THE MESSAGE
[THE STOWAWAY]
THE PILLAR OF LIGHT
[THE SILENT BARRIER]
THE “MIND THE PAINT” GIRL
[ONE WONDERFUL NIGHT]
THE TERMS OF SURRENDER
FLOWER OF THE GORSE
THE RED YEAR
[THE GREAT MOGUL]
MIRABEL’S ISLAND
[THE DAY OF WRATH]
[HIS UNKNOWN WIFE]
[THE POSTMASTER’S DAUGHTER]
THE REVELLERS


CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.Questionings[1]
II.Strangers, Indeed[13]
III.The Seeds of Mischief[27]
IV.The Feast[40]
V.“It Is the First Step that Counts”[55]
VI.Wherein the Red Blood Flows[71]
VII.George Pickering Plays the Man[88]
VIII.Showing How Martin’s Horizon
Widens
[100]
IX.The Wildcat[115]
X.Deepening Shadows[128]
XI.For One, the Night; for Another,
the Dawn
[140]
XII.A Friendly Argument[153]
XIII.A Dying Deposition[172]
XIV.The Storm[190]
XV.The Unwritten Law[206]
XVI.Undercurrents[225]
XVII.Two Moorland Episodes[243]
XVIII.The Seven Full Years[272]
XIX.Out of the Mists[292]
XX.The Rigor of the Game[307]
XXI.Nearing the End[323]