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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