A Daughter of the Forest
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Raymond Evelyn. A Daughter of the Forest
CHAPTER I. THE STORM
CHAPTER II. SPIRIT OR MORTAL
CHAPTER III. AN ESTRAY FROM CIVILIZATION
CHAPTER IV. WHAT WAS IN THE NAME
CHAPTER V. IN ALADDIN LAND
CHAPTER VI. A ONE-SIDED STORY
CHAPTER VII. A WOODLAND MENAGERIE
CHAPTER VIII. KING MADOC
CHAPTER IX. PERPLEXITIES
CHAPTER X. DEPARTURE
CHAPTER XI. A DISCLOSURE
CHAPTER XII. CARRYING
CHAPTER XIII. A DEAD WATER TRAGEDY
CHAPTER XIV. SHOOTING THE RAPIDS
CHAPTER XV. SCIENCE AND SUPERSTITION
CHAPTER XVI. DIVERGING ROADS
CHAPTER XVII. IN THE HOUR OF DARKNESS
CHAPTER XVIII. THE LETTER
CHAPTER XIX. A QUESTION OF APPAREL
CHAPTER XX. COMING AND GOING
CHAPTER XXI. IN THE GREAT RAILWAY STATION
CHAPTER XXII. NUMBER 526
CHAPTER XXIII. FATHER AND SON
CHAPTER XXIV. A HIDDEN SAFE DEPOSIT
CHAPTER XXV. THE MELODY AND MYSTERY OF LIFE
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The end of that great storm was almost as sudden as its beginning. Aroused by the silence that succeeded the uproar, Angelique stood up and rubbed her limbs, stiff with long kneeling. The fire had gone out. Meroude was asleep on the blankets spread for Margot, who had not returned, nor the master. As for that matter the house-mistress had not expected that they ever would.
“There is nothin’ left. I am alone. It was the glass. Ah! that the palsy had but seized my unlucky hand before I took it from its shelf! How still it is. How clear, too, is my darling’s laugh – it rings through the room – it is a ghost. It will haunt me al-ways, al-ways.”
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Her words ended with a sigh of satisfaction as a slight motion stirred the features into which she peered so earnestly, and she raised her master’s head a bit higher. Then his eyes slowly opened and the dazed look gradually gave place to a normal expression.
“Why, Margot! Angelique? What’s happened?”
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