CONTENTS.
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Preface ix
CHAPTER I
Love Unknown 7
CHAPTER II.
Love Known 16
CHAPTER III.
Launched 23
CHAPTER IV.
Cold Water 30
CHAPTER V.
A Hornet's Nest 37
CHAPTER VI.
“Starve Then.” 43
CHAPTER VII.
A Good Samaritan 49
CHAPTER VIII.
Yahcob Bunk 56
CHAPTER IX.
Land at Last 64
CHAPTER X.
The New Broom 71
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CHAPTER XI.
Too Much alike 78
CHAPTER XII.
Blue Blood 85
CHAPTER XIII.
Deacon Gudgeon's Son 93
CHAPTER XIV.
The result of First Love 98
CHAPTER XV.
Very Cold 109
CHAPTER XVI.
She Speaks to Him 114
CHAPTER XVII.
Promoted 118
CHAPTER XVIII.
Just in Time 125
CHAPTER XIX.
Rescued 134
CHAPTER XX.
Miss Ludolph Makes a Discovery 141
CHAPTER XXI.
What is the Matter With Him 149
CHAPTER XXII.
Is He a Gentleman? 157
CHAPTER XXIII.
Christine's Idea of Christians 165
CHAPTER XXIV.
Equal to an Emergency 167
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CHAPTER XXV.
The Revelation 185
CHAPTER XXVI.
Night Thoughts 195
CHAPTER XXVII.
Darkness 201
CHAPTER XXVIII.
Miss Ludolph Commits a Theft 219
CHAPTER XXIX.
A Miserable Triumph 227
CHAPTER XXX.
Life Without Love 238
CHAPTER XXXI.
Dennis's Love put to Practical Use 249
CHAPTER XXXII.
The Two Heights 266
CHAPTER XXXIII.
Beguiled 277
CHAPTER XXXIV.
Both Dennis and Christine Learn Something Surprising 286
CHAPTER XXXV.
The Two Pictures 298
CHAPTER XXXVI.
Regret 312
CHAPTER XXXVII.
Remorse 327
CHAPTER XXXVIII.
An Apparition 338
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CHAPTER XXXIX.
If He Knew 351
CHAPTER XL.
The Gates Open 363
CHAPTER XLI.
Susie Winthrop appears again 376
CHAPTER XLII.
Suggestive Pictures and a Prize 385
CHAPTER XLIII.
Fire! Fire! 391
CHAPTER XLIV.
Baron Ludolph Learns the Truth, 399
CHAPTER XLV.
“Christine awake! for your life!” 407
CHAPTER XLVI.
On the Beach 420
CHAPTER XLVII.
“Prayer is mighty.”—Christine a Christian 433
CHAPTER XLVIII.
Christine's Grave 444
CHAPTER XLIX.
Susie Winthrop 452
CHAPTER L.
Dr. Arten Struck by Lightning 461
CHAPTER LI.
Bill Cronk's Toast 470
CHAPTER LII.
“Every Barrier Burned Away.” 481
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PREFACE.
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I shall say but few words in regard to this first child
of my imagination.
About one year ago our hearts were in deepest sympathy
with our fellow citizens of Chicago, and it occurred
to me that their losses, sufferings, and fortitude might
teach lessons after the echoes of the appalling event had
died away in the Press; and that even the lurid and destructive
flames might reveal with greater vividness the
need and value of Christian faith.
I spent some days among the smouldering ruins, and
then commenced the following simple story which has
grown into larger proportions than at first intended. But
comparatively a small portion of the narrative is occupied
with the fire, for its scenes are beyond description, and too
strange and terrible to be dwelt upon. Therefore the thread
of my story is carried rapidly through that period of unparalleled
excitement and disaster.
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Nearly all the scenes introduced are historical, and are
employed to give their terrible emphasis to that which is
equally true in the serenest and securest times.
E. P. R.
Roe, Edward Payson, 1838-1888 [1872], Barriers burned away. (Dodd & Mead, New York) [word count] [eaf667T].
