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Title: The Man Who Rose Again
Author: Joseph Hocking
Release Date: September 28, 2010 [EBook #33964]
Language: English
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THE MAN WHO ROSE AGAIN
BY JOSEPH HOCKING
WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR
CINCINNATI
JENNINGS & GRAHAM
PRINTED IN 1907
_The central idea of this story is based upon an incident in real life,
related to me by C. Hagberg Wright, Esq., LL.D., of the London Library,
to whom I wish to express my grateful acknowledgment and sincere
thanks._
_J. H._
[Illustration: "What do our pattern young men say?" sneered Leicester.]
CONTENTS
I. A CYNIC'S CHALLENGE
II. THE CHALLENGE ACCEPTED
III. THE MAN AND THE WOMAN MEET
IV. A DOUBLE PERSONALITY
V. THE STRENGTHENING OF THE CHAIN
VI. LEICESTER'S WOOING
VII. A WOMAN'S HEART
VIII. THE FOUR MEN MEET AGAIN
IX. THE NIGHT BEFORE THE WEDDING
X. THE WEDDING-DAY
XI. LEICESTER AND WINFIELD
XII. THE LAST LINK BROKEN
XIII. DEGRADATION
XIV. LEICESTER'S FAREWELL TO TAVITON
XV. THE CYNIC AND THE COUNTRYWOMAN
XVI. A GRIM JOKE
XVII. HOW OLIVE RECEIVED THE NEWS
XVIII. OLIVE'S LIFE IN DEVONSHIRE
XIX. THE MAN WITH THE FEZ
XX. HERBERT BRIARFIELD AND THE STRANGER
XXI. A GAME OF GOLF--A GAME OF LIFE
XXII. SIGNOR RICORDO AND OLIVE
XXIII. SPRAGUE'S EXPLANATION
XXIV. RICORDO'S REMINISCENCES
XXV. THE COMING OF WINFIELD
XXVI. REVELATIONS
XXVII. RICORDO'S WOOING
XXVIII. THE SECOND MEETING OF THE CYNIC AND THE COUNTRYWOMAN
XXIX. GOD AND THE MAN
XXX. THE MAN WHO ROSE AGAIN
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
"WHAT DO OUR PATTERN YOUNG MEN SAY?" SNEERED LEICESTER.
"WITH YOU FOR MY WIFE, I CAN DO ANYTHING."
SIGNOR RICORDO.
SHE GAZED AT HIM DUMBFOUNDED.
THE MAN WHO ROSE AGAIN
CHAPTER I
A CYNIC'S CHALLENGE
Four men sat i
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