The hindered handFront matterReading editionChapter navigation51 reading sectionsGo to chapterChoose a chapter…Front matterTHE HINDERED HAND:THE REIGN OF THE REPRESSIONIST.DEDICATION.SOLEMNLY ATTESTED.ILLUSTRATIONS.TUNING THE LYRE.Chapter I · Occurrences That Puzzle.Chapter II · His Face Was Her Guide.Chapter III · Wherein Foresta First Appears.Chapter IV · The Ways of A Seeker After Fame.Chapter V · Rather Late In Life To Be Still Nameless.Chapter VI · Friendly Enemies.Chapter VII · Officers Of The Law.Chapter VIII · A Messenger That Hesitates.Chapter IX · A Plotter Is He.Chapter X · Arabelle Seabright.Chapter XI · Unusual For A Man.Chapter XII · A Honeymoon Out Of The Usual Order.Chapter XIII · Shrewd Mrs. Crawford.Chapter XIV · Alene and Ramon.Chapter XV · Unexpected Developments.Chapter XVI · An Eager Searcher.Chapter XVII · Peculiar Divorce Proceedings.Chapter XVIII · Mists That Vanish.Chapter XIX · The Fugitives Flee Again.Chapter XX · The Blaze.Chapter XXI · Planning To Act.Chapter XXII · The Two Pathways.Chapter XXIII · They Grapple.Chapter XXIV · Out of Joint With His Times.Chapter XXV · A Joyful Farewell.Chapter XXVI · Gus Martin.Chapter XXVII · Tiara Mystifies Us.Chapter XXVIII · Poor Fellow.Chapter XXIX · A Revelation.Chapter XXX · Mr. A. Hostility.Chapter XXXI · Two of a Kind.Chapter XXXII · Working and Waiting.Chapter XXXIII · Back in Almaville.Chapter XXXIV · A Great Day in Court.Chapter XXXV · Eunice! Eunice!Chapter XXXVI · Enthusiastic John Blue.Chapter XXXVII · Postponing His Shout of Triumph.Chapter XXXVIII · He Cannot, But He Does!Chapter XXXIX · A Son of the New South.Chapter XL · Sorrow and Gladness.NOTES FOR THE SERIOUS.NOTES TO THE THIRD EDITION.A HINDERING HANDA HINDERING HAND.Beginning of this editionNext chapter →THE HINDERED HAND:All chapters and sections (51)Opening pagesFront matterOther sectionsTHE HINDERED HAND:THE REIGN OF THE REPRESSIONIST.DEDICATION.SOLEMNLY ATTESTED.ILLUSTRATIONS.TUNING THE LYRE.Chapters12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940Other sectionsNOTES FOR THE SERIOUS.NOTES TO THE THIRD EDITION.A HINDERING HANDA HINDERING HAND."Princes shall come out of Egypt; Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands unto God."◇THE HINDERED HAND: →