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Title: The Silent Barrier
Author: Louis Tracy
Illustrator: J. V. McFall
A. W. Parsons
Release Date: March 14, 2010 [EBook #31635]
Language: English
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The
Silent Barrier
BY
LOUIS TRACY
AUTHOR OF
CYNTHIA'S CHAUFFEUR, A SON OF THE
IMMORTALS, THE WINGS OF THE MORNING, ETC.
ILLUSTRATIONS BY
J. V. McFALL
Page decorations by A. W. PARSONS from
photographs by THE ENGADINE PRESS
NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS
COPYRIGHT, 1908, 1911, BY
EDWARD J. CLODE
Entered at Stationers' Hall
[Illustration: "Spare me one moment, Miss Wynton," he said.
_Frontispiece_]
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. THE WISH 1
II. THE FULFILLMENT OF THE WISH 19
III. WHEREIN TWO PEOPLE BECOME BETTER
ACQUAINTED 41
IV. HOW HELEN CAME TO MALOJA 64
V. AN INTERLUDE 84
VI. THE BATTLEFIELD 103
VII. SOME SKIRMISHING 122
VIII. SHADOWS 144
IX. "ETTA'S FATHER" 167
X. ON THE GLACIER 189
XI. WHEREIN HELEN LIVES A CROWDED
HOUR 212
XII. THE ALLIES 232
XIII. THE COMPACT 253
XIV. WHEREIN MILLICENT ARMS FOR THE
FRAY 275
XV. A COWARD'S VICTORY 298
XVI. SPENCER EXPLAINS
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