The Father Confessor, Stories of Death and Danger

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Dora Sigerson Shorter. The Father Confessor, Stories of Death and Danger

The Father Confessor, Stories of Death and Danger

Table of Contents

I. The Father Confessor

II. The Three Travellers

III. Priscilla

IV. A Dreamer

V. Transmigration

VI. The Broken Heart

VII. The Other Woman's Child

VIII. A Question of Courage

IX. The Strange Voice

X. The Twin Brothers

XI. The Fourth Generation

XII. Walter Barrington

XIII. All Souls’ Eve

XIV. The Lion-Tamer

XV. The Women's Progress Club

XVI. The Mother

XVII. The Jealousy of Beatrix

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Dora Sigerson Shorter

Published by Good Press, 2020

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"He turned from her and ran to the stables; he flung a halter on the black horse, and, leaping upon its back, galloped off in the direction of the other bridge. The black horse covered the ground as it had never done before, but as they sped by the side of the river the man heard a faint voice shouting from the water. He looked and saw a drowning man hanging to a beam of wood, his white, wet face glowing in the gathering gloom. The pallid lips opened again.

"‘The bridge!’ they said—‘the bridge is down!’

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