While we watch with becoming reverence and muse thereon, we catch up our lyre to sing to the memory of those slain in their name, if not by their order.
Very respectfully yours,
The Author.
CONTENTS.
[AUTHOR'S PREFACE.]
[PROEM.]
[CHAPTER I. A Girl Perplexed]
[CHAPTER II. The Cause Revealed but not Removed]
[CHAPTER III. Other Actors]
[CHAPTER IV. A Lady who did not know that she was a Lady]
[CHAPTER V. What a Kiss Did]
[CHAPTER VI. Up to Date Aristocracy in a Negro Church]
[CHAPTER VII. Rev. Josiah Nerve, D. D. S.]
[CHAPTER VIII. He Narrowly Escapes]
[CHAPTER IX. The Pit is Dug]
[CHAPTER X. The Victims]
[CHAPTER XI. Murder]
[CHAPTER XII. The Visit of a Policeman]
[CHAPTER XIII. Backward, then Forward]
[CHAPTER XIV. As Least Expected]
[CHAPTER XV. An Awful Resolve]
[CHAPTER XVI. A Political Trick]
[CHAPTER XVII. Paving the Way]
[CHAPTER XVIII. John Wysong Confesses]
[CHAPTER XIX. Added Sorrows]
[CHAPTER XX. Speaker Lanier]
[CHAPTER XXI. The Hanging]
[CHAPTER XXII. Worse than Death]
[CHAPTER XXIII. Full of Joy]
[CHAPTER XXIV. Opposing the Wedding]
[CHAPTER XXV. Erma and an Assassin]
[CHAPTER XXVI. Name the Chapter After you Read It]
[CHAPTER XXVII. The Funeral]
[EPILOGUE.]
PROEM.
A farmer who is planting corn in a fertile field, halts beneath the shade of a huge oak to rest at noon.
Accidentally a grain of corn drops from his bag, finds lodgement in the soil, and in time begins to grow.
The grains that fell in the field will have their difficulties in reaching maturity.