Snake and Sword: A Novel

by Percival Christopher Wren

Snake and Sword

A Novel

by Percival Christopher Wren

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DEDICATED
TO
MY WIFE
ALICE LUCILLE WREN

CONTENTS

[PART I. THE WELDING OF A SOUL]

[CHAPTER I. The Snake and the Soul]

[PART II. THE SEARING OF A SOUL]

[CHAPTER II. The Sword and the Snake]

[CHAPTER III. The Snake Appears]

[CHAPTER IV. The Sword and the Soul]

[CHAPTER V. Lucille]

[CHAPTER VI. The Snake’s “Myrmidon”]

[CHAPTER VII. Love—and the Snake]

[CHAPTER VIII. Troopers of the Queen]

[CHAPTER IX. A Snake avenges a Haddock and Lucille behaves in an un-Smelliean Manner]

[CHAPTER X. Much Ado about Almost Nothing—A Mere Trooper]

[CHAPTER XI. More Myrmidons]

[PART III. THE SAVING OF A SOUL]

[CHAPTER XII. Vultures and Luck—Good and Bad]

[CHAPTER XIII. Found]

[CHAPTER XIV. The Snake and the Sword]

[Seven Years After]

[EPILOGUE]

PART I.
THE WELDING OF A SOUL.

CHAPTER I.
THE SNAKE AND THE SOUL.

When Colonel Matthew Devon de Warrenne, V.C., D.S.O., of the Queen’s Own (118th) Bombay Lancers, pinned his Victoria Cross to the bosom of his dying wife’s night-dress, in token of his recognition that she was the braver of the twain, he was not himself.