Half a Hero

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Anthony Hope. Half a Hero

Half a Hero

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

THE IMPOSSIBLE—INEVITABLE

CHAPTER II

A POPULAR DEMONSTRATION

CHAPTER III

HOSPITALITY EX OFFICIO

CHAPTER IV

WEEDING OUT THE WEAK-KNEED

CHAPTER V

A TALK AT A DANCE

CHAPTER VI

A CANDIDATE FOR OFFICE

CHAPTER VII

A COMMON SPECTACLE

CHAPTER VIII

FOR THE HIGHEST BIDDER

CHAPTER IX

TWO HASTY UTTERANCES

CHAPTER X

THE SMOKE OF HIDDEN FIRES

CHAPTER XI

A CONSCIENTIOUS MAN'S CONSCIENCE

CHAPTER XII

AN ABSURD AMBITION

CHAPTER XIII

OUT OF HARM'S WAY

CHAPTER XIV

A FATAL SECESSION

CHAPTER XV

AN ATTEMPT AT TERRORISM

CHAPTER XVI

A LEAKY VESSEL

CHAPTER XVII

THE TRUTH ABOUT THE MAN

CHAPTER XVIII

BY AN OVERSIGHT OF SOCIETY'S

CHAPTER XIX

LAST CHANCES

CHAPTER XX

THE LAW VERSUS RULE 3

CHAPTER XXI

ALL THERE WAS TO TELL

CHAPTER XXII

THE STORY OF A PHOTOGRAPH

CHAPTER XXIII

AN ORATOR'S RIVAL

CHAPTER XXIV

THREE AGAINST THE WORLD

CHAPTER XXV

THE TRUTH TOO LATE

CHAPTER XXVI

THE UNCLEAN THING

CHAPTER XXVII

THE DECISION OF THE ORACLE

CHAPTER XXVIII

STEALING A MARCH

CHAPTER XXIX

A BEATEN MAN'S THOUGHTS

CHAPTER XXX

THE END OF A TUMULT

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Anthony Hope

A Novel

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"You gave him three months for inciting to riot in the strike at the Collieries two years ago. He's made Minister of Public Works; I hear the Governor held out for a long while, but Medland insisted."

"And my works are to be Public Works, I suppose," grumbled Kilshaw, finding some comfort in this epigrammatic statement of the unwelcome prospect before him.

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