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Title: The Judgment House
Author: Gilbert Parker
Posting Date: May 13, 2009 [EBook #3746]
Release Date: February, 2003
First Posted: August 15, 2001
Last Updated: June 13, 2002
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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THE JUDGMENT HOUSE
by
Gilbert Parker
CONTENTS
I THE JASMINE FLOWER
II THE UNDERGROUND WORLD
III A DAUGHTER OF TYRE
IV THE PARTNERS MEET
V A WOMAN TELLS HER STORY
VI WITHIN THE POWER-HOUSE
VII THREE YEARS LATER
VIII "HE SHALL NOT TREAT ME SO"
IX THE APPIAN WAY
X AN ARROW FINDS A BREAST
XI IN WALES, WHERE JIGGER PLAYS HIS PART
XII THE KEY IN THE LOCK
XIII "I WILL NOT SING"
XIV THE BAAS
XV THE WORLD WELL LOST
XVI THE COMING OF THE BAAS
XVII IS THERE NO HELP FOR THESE THINGS?
XVIII LANDRASSY'S LAST STROKE
XIX TO-MORROW ... PREPARE!
XX THE FURNACE DOOR
XXI THE BURNING FIERY FURNACE
XXII IN WHICH FELLOWES GOES A JOURNEY
XXIII "MORE WAS LOST AT MOHACKSFIELD"
XXIV ONE WHO CAME SEARCHING
XXV WHEREIN THE LOST IS FOUND
XXVI JASMINE'S LETTER
XXVII KROOL
XXVIII "THE BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM"
XXIX THE MENACE OF THE MOUNTAIN
XXX "AND NEVER THE TWAIN SHALL MEET!"
XXXI THE GREY HORSE AND ITS RIDER
XXXII THE WORLD'S FOUNDLING
XXXIII "ALAMACHTIG!"
XXXIV "THE ALPINE FELLOW"
XXXV AT BRINKWORT'S FARM
XXXVI SPRINGS OF HEALING
XXXVII UNDER THE GUN
XXXVIII "PHEIDIPPIDES"
XXXIX "THE ROAD IS CLEAR"
NOTE
Except where references to characters well-known to all the world occur
in these pages, this book does not present a picture of public or
private individuals living or dead. It is not in any sense a historical
novel. It is in conception and portraiture a work of the imagination.
"Strangers come to the outer wall--
(Why do the sleepers stir?)
Strangers enter the Judgment House--
(Why do the s
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