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Title: Prisoners of Conscience

Author: Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

Release Date: March 31, 2010 [EBook #31835]

Language: English

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PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE

[Illustration: "HE REPEATED ALL THE BLESSED WORDS." (_See p.
230._)]

PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE

By
Amelia E. Barr

New York
The Century Co.
1897

Copyright, 1896, 1897, by
The Century Co.

The De Vinne Press.

CONTENTS

BOOK FIRST--LIOT BORSON

PAGE

I. The Weaving of Doom 3

II. Jealousy Cruel as the Grave 23

III. A Sentence for Life 44

IV. The Door Wide Open 62

BOOK SECOND--DAVID BORSON

V. A New Life 85

VI. Kindred--the Quick and the Dead 107

VII. So Far and No Farther 127

VIII. The Justification of Death 144

IX. A Sacrifice Accepted 169

X. In the Fourth Watch 192

XI. The Lowest Hell 210

XII. "At Last it is Peace" 220

ILLUSTRATIONS

"He Repeated all the Blessed Words" _Frontispiece_

A Lerwick Man 33

"The Waters of the Great Deep" 55

"'I Want to Find my Father's People'" 91

Nanna and Vala 103

"But she Held her Peace" 133

At the Kirk 137

Peat-gatherers 161

Groat 193