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Title: The Broken Gate
A Novel
Author: Emerson Hough
Illustrator: M. Leone Bracker
Release Date: August 20, 2010 [EBook #33475]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ASCII
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The BROKEN GATE
_A NOVEL_
BY EMERSON HOUGH
AUTHOR OF "THE MAN NEXT DOOR," "THE MAGNIFICENT ADVENTURE," "54 deg. 40' OR
FIGHT," "THE MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE," ETC.
ILLUSTRATED BY
M. LEONE BRACKER
D. APPLETON and COMPANY
NEW YORK LONDON
1917
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY EMERSON HOUGH
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE PICTORIAL REVIEW COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America
TO
ARTHUR T. VANCE
FAITHFUL AND KINDLY COUNSELOR
[Illustration: He felt her hands resting on his head as though in
shelter.]
CONTENTS
I. THE HOMECOMING OF DIEUDONNE LANE
II. AURORA LANE
III. TWO MOTHERS
IV. IN OPEN COURT
V. CLOSED DOORS
VI. THE DIVIDING LINE
VII. AT MIDNIGHT
VIII. THE EXTRAORDINARY HORACE BROOKS
IX. THE OTHER WOMAN CONCERNED
X. THE MURDER
XI. IN THE NAME OF THE LAW
XII. ANNE OGLESBY
XIII. "AS YOU BELIEVE IN GOD!"
XIV. AURORA AND ANNE
XV. THE ANGELS AND MISS JULIA
XVI. HORACE BROOKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW
XVII. AT CHURCH
XVIII. AT THE COUNTY JAIL
XIX. THE MOB
XX. THE IDIOT
XXI. A TRUE BILL
XXII. MISS JULIA
XXIII. THE STATE _VS._ DIEUDONNE LANE
XXIV. THE SACKCLOTH OF SPRING VALLEY
XXV. BECAUSE SHE WAS A WOMAN
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
He felt her hands resting on his head as though in Shelter.
"Your Honor," said he, "I presume I am the defendant in this case."
"I was kissing you and saying good-by ... when Miss Julia came in----"
"Anne! What made you come?"
The BROKEN GATE
CHAPTER I
THE HOMECOMING OF DIEUDONNE LA
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