The Wall Between

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Sara Ware Bassett. The Wall Between

The Wall Between

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

A MODERN RICHELIEU

CHAPTER II

THE HOWES

CHAPTER III

LUCY

CHAPTER IV

THE EPISODE OF THE EGGS

CHAPTER V

A CLASH OF WILLS

CHAPTER VI

ELLEN ENCOUNTERS AN ENIGMA

CHAPTER VII

THE UNRAVELING OF THE MYSTERY

CHAPTER VIII

WHEN THE CAT’S AWAY

CHAPTER IX

JANE MAKES A DISCOVERY

CHAPTER X

A TEMPTATION

CHAPTER XI

THE CROSSING OF THE RUBICON

CHAPTER XII

THE TEST

CHAPTER XIII

MELVINY ARRIVES

CHAPTER XIV

A PIECE OF DIPLOMACY

CHAPTER XV

ELLEN’S VENGEANCE

CHAPTER XVI

LUCY COMES TO A DECISION

CHAPTER XVII

THE GREAT ALTERNATIVE

CHAPTER XVIII

LOVE TRIUMPHANT

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Sara Ware Bassett

Published by Good Press, 2019

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The note she had mailed to her niece was the first advance she had made toward any human being within her memory; and this was not the cry of a dependent but rather the first link in a plot to outgeneral circumstances and place the future within her own control. She prided herself that for half a century she had invariably got the better of whosoever and whatsoever she had come in contact with. What was death, then, but an incident, if after it she might still reign and project her will into the universe even from the estranging fastnesses of the grave? 17

Therefore the answer from Lucy was of greater import than was any ordinary letter. It would tell her whether the initial step in her conspiracy to triumph over Destiny was successful. What wonder that her aged fingers trembled as she tore open the envelope of the message and spread the snowy paper feverishly on the table?

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