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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

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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