A Gamble with Life
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Hocking Silas Kitto. A Gamble with Life
CHAPTER I. A STRANGE COMPACT
CHAPTER II. DREAMS AND REALITIES
CHAPTER III. THE VALUE OF A LIFE
CHAPTER IV. PAYING THE PENALTY
CHAPTER V. A PERILOUS TASK
CHAPTER VI. FAITH AND PHILOSOPHY
CHAPTER VII. THE NICK OF TIME
CHAPTER VIII. THE SOUL'S AWAKENING
CHAPTER IX. THE CAPTAIN'S LETTER
CHAPTER X. A VISITOR
CHAPTER XI. A TALK BY THE WAY
CHAPTER XII. FAIRYLAND
CHAPTER XIII. THE AWAKENING
CHAPTER XIV. EVOLUTION
CHAPTER XV. MISGIVINGS
CHAPTER XVI. GROWING SUSPICIONS
CHAPTER XVII. RETROSPECTIVE
CHAPTER XVIII. THE OLD AND THE NEW
CHAPTER XIX. AFTER THREE YEARS
CHAPTER XX. FATHER AND SON
CHAPTER XXI. GERVASE SPEAKS HIS MIND
CHAPTER XXII. A HUMAN DOCUMENT
CHAPTER XXIII. MEANS TO AN END
CHAPTER XXIV. THE JUSTICE OF THE STRONG
CHAPTER XXV. THE END OF A DREAM
CHAPTER XXVI. QUESTIONS TO BE FACED
CHAPTER XXVII. THE VALUE OF A LIFE
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE RETURN OF THE SQUIRE
CHAPTER XXIX. GETTING AT THE TRUTH
CHAPTER XXX. THE TOILS OF CIRCUMSTANCE
CHAPTER XXXI. OLD FRIENDS
CHAPTER XXXII. FACING THE INEVITABLE
CHAPTER XXXIII. WAS IT PROVIDENCE?
CHAPTER XXXIV. DISCOVERIES
CHAPTER XXXV. CONFLICTING EMOTIONS
CHAPTER XXXVI. HIS HEART'S DESIRE
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Rufus Sterne awoke next morning with a feeling of buoyancy and hopefulness such as he had never before experienced. The sun was streaming brightly through the little window and gilding the humble furniture of the room with thin lines of gold; the house-sparrows were chirruping noisily under the eaves; the fishermen, early in from their night's fishing, were calling "Mackerel" in the winding street below; whilst the memory of pleasant dreams was still haunting the chambers of his brain – dreams in which his own identity had got mixed up in some curious fashion with that of the fair stranger he had seen the evening before.
Mrs. Tuke, his landlady, laid his breakfast in silence. It was very rarely now that she spoke to him. On her face was a look of injured innocence or pained resignation. She had done her best in days gone by to lead him to see what she called the error of his ways, but without success. Now she had given him over – though not without considerable reluctance – to the hardness of his heart. She sometimes wondered whether she ought to keep as a lodger a man who was claimed neither by church nor chapel, and whose religious opinions not a man in the entire village would endorse.
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"Well, scarcely. Strangers have been caught and drowned before now."
"They could not swim?"
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