HAMLIN GARLAND
Reading edition
AUTHOR OF "THE CAPTAIN OF THE GRAY-HORSE TROOP" "HESPER" "THE LIGHT OF THE STAR" ETC. ETC.
LONDON AND NEW YORK HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS :: MCMV
Copyright, 1905, by Hamlin Garland. All rights reserved. Published May, 1905.
CONTENTS
BOOK I
CHAPTER PAGE
I. The Setting 1
II. The Maid on the Mountain-Side 4
III. The Man 11
IV. A Second Meeting 15
V. Pupil and Master 23
VI. In the Marshall Basin 42
VII. The Forces of Light and Darkness 59
VIII. Dr. Britt Explains 68
IX. Anthony Clarke, Evangel 83
X. Clarke's Wooing 94
BOOK II
I. The Modernists 103
II. News of Viola 112
III. Britt Comes To Dine 132
IV. The Patron of Psychics 146
V. Kate Visits Viola 164
VI. Serviss Listens Shrewdly 188
VII. The Sleeping Sibyl 201
VIII. Kate's Interrogation 213
IX. Viola's Plea for Help 224
X. Morton Sends a Telegram 245
XI. Dr. Britt Pays His Dinner-Call 251
XII. Viola in Dinner-Dress 262
XIII. The Test Séance 283
XIV. Puzzled Philosophers 307
XV. Viola Revolts From Clarke 328
XVI. The House of Discord 337
XVII. When Doctors Disagree 353
XVIII. Lambert Intervenes 370
XIX. Serviss Assumes Control 386
XX. The Mother's Faith 399
XXI. Clarke Shadows the Feast 413
XXII. The Spiritual Rescue 429
ILLUSTRATIONS
"SHE CAME SLOWLY, WITH ONE SLIM HAND ON THE RAILING" Frontispiece
"THERE WAS IN HIS LOOK AN EXPRESSION OF ACKNOWLEDGED KINSHIP" Facing p. 6
"SERVISS LISTENED WITH GROWING AMAZEMENT" Facing p. 36
"VIOLA, TOO, CAME BACK TO BEWITCH HIM FROM HIS READING" Facing p. 108
"'WHAT DO YOU MEAN? DO YOU WANT TO KILL THE PSYCHIC?'" Facing p. 212
"'BUT, TELL ME, HOW DID THE CHANGE COME? WHAT BEGAN TO HAPPEN?'" Facing p. 276
"THE GIRL'S EYES WERE OPENING AS FROM NATURAL SLUMBER" Facing p. 308
"'YOU NEED NOT SPEAK—JUST PUT YOUR HAND IN MINE AND I WILL UNDERSTAND'" Facing p. 436