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Mitford Bertram. A Veldt Official
A Veldt Official
Table of Contents
"A Veldt Official"
Chapter One
“Where’s doppersdorp?”
Chapter Two
The Post-Cart Travellers
Chapter Three
Peter Van Stolz, R.M
Chapter Four
Carte and Tierce!
Chapter Five
Concerning Small Things
Chapter Six
The Verdict of Doppersdorp
Chapter Seven
Lambert—Out of it
Chapter Eight
Concerning the Chase
Chapter Nine
“Love that is First and Last...”
Chapter Ten
“I Have Won You!”
Chapter Eleven
“I Hold You!”
Chapter Twelve
Breathing of War
Chapter Thirteen
A Limed Twig
Chapter Fourteen
Hoist With His Own Petard
Chapter Fifteen
A Shake of the Dice
Chapter Sixteen
“Within the Veins of Time.”
Chapter Seventeen
“It is Sweeter to Love—It is Wiser to Dare.”
Chapter Eighteen
The Hostile Ground
Chapter Nineteen
A Dark Mystery of the Veldt
Chapter Twenty
Mona’s Dream
Chapter Twenty One
A Voice through the Night
Chapter Twenty Two
Between Blade and Flame
Chapter Twenty Three
A Change
Chapter Twenty Four
“Who Knew Not Joseph.”
Chapter Twenty Five
Lambert makes a Discovery
Chapter Twenty Six
A Sword—Long Rusted
Chapter Twenty Seven
“Thou shouldst have known me true.”
Chapter Twenty Eight
“Dead Separate Souls...”
Chapter Twenty Nine
“O Love, Thy Day sets Darkling.”
Chapter Thirty
The Portal of the Shadow
Chapter Thirty One
“Dark Roll the Deepening Days...”
Chapter Thirty Two
Within the Shadow
Chapter Thirty Three
Alone on a Wide, Wide Sea
Chapter Thirty Four
“Air, Light, and Wave Seemed Full of Burning Rest.”
Chapter Thirty Five
Conclusion
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Bertram Mitford
A Novel of Circumstance
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So the prosecutor steps down, and is replaced by the police sergeant, who deposes to the finding of the skin and the arrest of the prisoner. The latter made no remark except that he supposed some one must have put it there, as he knew nothing about it. This witness is not cross-examined.
No evidence has Mr Darrell to call. But he draws a pathetic picture of his unfortunate client, wrongfully accused—mistakenly rather, for nobody who knows Mr Suffield would suspect him of wilfully making a false accusation. This unfortunate man then—the very nature of whose work obliges him to be alone in the lonely veldt, cannot of course call any rebutting evidence, cannot prove an alibi—is being victimised by the real culprit, but would rather take the punishment upon himself than inform against the real culprit; and so on, and so on. The while Gonjana, standing nonchalantly in the dock, is marvelling at the stupendous idiocy of the white man, who can take up all that time determining the plainest and clearest proofs of his guilt. And the Bench shares in substance his opinion.
