To begin a story of this kind at the beginning is hard; for when the beginning may have been, no man knows. Perhaps it was a hundred years ago - perhaps a thousand - perhaps ten thousand; and it may well be, yet longer ago, even, than that. Yet it can be told that John Schuyler came from a long line of clean-bodied, clean-souled, clear-eyed, clear-headed ancestors; and from these he had inherited cleanness of body and of soul, clearness of eye and of head.
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I. Of Certain People
II. Of Certain Other People
III. Two Boys and a Girl
IV. The Child and the Stranger
V. As Time Passes
VI. An Accident
VII. An Incident
VIII. Of Certain Goings
IX. Of Certain Other Goings
X. Two Boys and a Doctor
XI. A Proposal
XII. A Foreign Mission
XIII. The Going
XIV. Parmalee-and The Woman
XV. A Warning
XVI. The Beginning
XVII. In The Night
XVIII. White Roses
XIX. Shadows
XX. A Fairy Story
XXI. A Letter
XXII. Again The Fairy Story
XXIII. Aid
XXIV. The Rescue
XXV. The Return
XXVI. The Red Rose
XXVII. The Red Road
XXVIII. The Battle
XXIX. Defeat
XXX. And Its Consequences
XXXI. That Which Men Said
XXXII. In the Garden
XXXIII. Temptation
XXXIV. The Shroud of a Soul
XXXV. The Thing that was a Man
XXXVI. Again the Battle
XXXVII. The Pity of It All
ILLUSTRATIONS.
"Beautiful, gloriously beautiful in her strange, weird dark beauty"
"Bye little sweetheart"
"I do forgive-forgive and understand"
"Can't you find in that dead thing you call a heart just one shred of pity?"
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Chapter 2 OF CERTAIN PEOPLE.
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Chapter 3 OF CERTAIN OTHER PEOPLE.
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Chapter 4 TWO BOYS AND A GIRL.
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Chapter 5 THE CHILD AND THE STRANGER.
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Chapter 6 AS TIME PASSES.
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Chapter 7 AN ACCIDENT.
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Chapter 8 AN INCIDENT.
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Chapter 9 OF CERTAIN GOINGS.
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Chapter 10 TWO BOYS AND A DOCTOR.
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Chapter 11 A PROPOSAL.
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Chapter 12 A FOREIGN MISSION
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Chapter 13 THE GOING.
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Chapter 14 YOUNG PARMALEE—AND THE WOMAN.
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Chapter 15 A WARNING.
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Chapter 16 THE BEGINNING.
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Chapter 17 WHITE ROSES.
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Chapter 18 SHADOWS.
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Chapter 19 A FAIRY STORY.
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Chapter 20 ONE.
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