The Conquest of Canaan

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Booth Tarkington. The Conquest of Canaan

The Conquest of Canaan

Table of Contents

I. ENTER CHORUS

II. A RESCUE

III. OLD HOPES

IV. THE DISASTER

V. BEAVER BEACH

VI. YE'LL TAK' THE HIGH ROAD AND I'LL TAK' THE LOW ROAD

VII. GIVE A DOG A BAD NAME

VIII. A BAD PENNY TURNS UP

IX "OUTER DARKNESS"

X. THE TRYST

XI. WHEN HALF-GODS GO

XII. TO REMAIN ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE IS NOT ALWAYS A VICTORY

XIII. THE WATCHER AND THE WARDEN

XIV. WHITE ROSES IN A LAW-OFFICE

XV. HAPPY FEAR GIVES HIMSELF UP

XVI. THE TWO CANAANS

XVII. MR. SHEEHAN'S HINTS

XVIII. IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY

XIX. ESKEW ARP

XX. THREE ARE ENLISTED

XXI. NORBERT WAITS FOR JOE

XXII. MR. SHEEHAN SPEAKS

XXIII. JOE WALKS ACROSS THE COURT-HOUSE YARD

XXIV. MARTIN PIKE KEEPS AN ENGAGEMENT

XXV. THE JURY COMES IN

XXVI. ANCIENT OF DAYS

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Booth Tarkington

Published by Good Press, 2021

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"I wonder why," ruminated Mr. Bradbury—"I wonder why 'Gene Bantry walked up from the deepo. Don't seem much like his style. Should think he'd of rode up in a hack."

"Sho!" said Uncle Joe Davey, his breath recovered. "He wanted to walk up past Judge Pike's, to see if there wasn't a show of Mamie's bein' at the window, and give her a chance to look at that college uniform and banjo-box and new walk of his."

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