The Broken Gate

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Emerson Hough. The Broken Gate

The Broken Gate

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CHAPTER I

THE HOMECOMING OF DIEUDONNÉ LANE

CHAPTER II

AURORA LANE

CHAPTER III

TWO MOTHERS

CHAPTER IV

IN OPEN COURT

"Your Honor," said he, "I presume I am the defendant in this case."

CHAPTER V

CLOSED DOORS

"I was kissing you and saying good-bye ... when Miss Julia came in—"

CHAPTER VI

THE DIVIDING LINE

CHAPTER VII

AT MIDNIGHT

CHAPTER VIII

THE EXTRAORDINARY HORACE BROOKS

CHAPTER IX

THE OTHER WOMAN CONCERNED

CHAPTER X

THE MURDER

CHAPTER XI

THE NAME OF THE LAW

CHAPTER XII

ANNE OGLESBY

CHAPTER XIII

"AS YOU BELIEVE IN GOD!"

CHAPTER XIV

AURORA AND ANNE

CHAPTER XV

THE ANGELS AND MISS JULIA

CHAPTER XVI

HORACE BROOKS, ATTORNEY AT LAW

CHAPTER XVII

AT CHURCH

CHAPTER XVIII

AT THE COUNTY JAIL

"Anne! What made you come?"

CHAPTER XIX

THE MOB

CHAPTER XX

THE IDIOT

CHAPTER XXI

A TRUE BILL

CHAPTER XXII

MISS JULIA

CHAPTER XXIII

THE STATE VS. DIEUDONNÉ LANE

CHAPTER XXIV

THE SACKCLOTH OF SPRING VALLEY

CHAPTER XXV

BECAUSE SHE WAS A WOMAN

By Emerson Hough

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Emerson Hough

A Novel

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His mother's eyes were turned away from him. "At least we have done it, Don," said she, with her shrewd, crooked smile. "We've not to do it over again. You can't forget what you have learned—you can't get away from your college education now, can you? You've got it—your diploma, your degree in engineering. You're a college man, Don, the only one in Spring Valley. And I'm so proud, and I'm so glad. Oh! Don—Don——"

She laid a hand on his breast shyly, almost afraid of him now—the first hand she had ever laid upon the heart of any man these twenty years. It was her son, a man finished, a gentleman, she hoped.... Could he not be a gentleman? So many things of that sort happened here in America. Poor boys had come up and come through—had they not? And even a poor boy might grow up to be a gentleman—was not that true—oh, might it not after all be true?

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