Fate Knocks at the Door

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Will Levington Comfort. Fate Knocks at the Door

Fate Knocks at the Door

Table of Contents

ASIA

FIRST CHAPTER

THE GREAT WIND STRIKES

SECOND CHAPTER

THE PACK-TRAIN IN LUZON

THIRD CHAPTER

RED PIGMENT OF SERVICE

FOURTH CHAPTER

THAT ADELAIDE PASSION

FIFTH CHAPTER

A FLOCK OF FLYING SWANS

SIXTH CHAPTER

THAT ISLAND SOMEWHERE

SEVENTH CHAPTER

ANDANTE CON MOTO—FIFTH

EIGHTH CHAPTER

THE MAN FROM THE PLEIAD

II

NEW YORK

NINTH CHAPTER

THE LONG-AWAITED WOMAN

TENTH CHAPTER

THE JEWS AND THE ROMANS

ELEVENTH CHAPTER

TWO DAVIDS COME TO BETH

TWELFTH CHAPTER

TWO LESSER ADVENTURES

THIRTEENTH CHAPTER

ABOUT SHADOWY SISTERS

FOURTEENTH CHAPTER

THIS CLAY AND PAINT AGE

FIFTEENTH CHAPTER

THE STORY OF THE MOTHER

"ANDREW BEDIENT

SIXTEENTH CHAPTER

"THROUGH DESIRE FOR HER"

SEVENTEENTH CHAPTER

THE PLAN OF THE BUILDER

EIGHTEENTH CHAPTER

THAT PARK PREDICAMENT

NINETEENTH CHAPTER

IN THE HOUSE OF GREY ONE

TWENTIETH CHAPTER

A CHEMISTRY OF SCANDAL

TWENTY-FIRST CHAPTER

THE SINGING DISTANCES

TWENTY-SECOND CHAPTER

BETH SIGNS THE PICTURE

TWENTY-THIRD CHAPTER

THE LAST RIDE TOGETHER

TWENTY-FOURTH CHAPTER

A PARABLE OF TWO HORSES

III

EQUATORIA

TWENTY-FIFTH CHAPTER

BEDIENT FOR THE PLEIAD

TWENTY-SIXTH CHAPTER

HOW STARTLING IS TRUTH

MR. ANDREW BEDIENT,

CELESTINO REY

CELESTINO REY. TWENTY-SEVENTH CHAPTER

THE ART OF MISS MALLORY

TWENTY-EIGHTH CHAPTER

A FURTHER NOTE FROM REY

MY ESTEEMED BEDIENT:

CELESTINO REY. TWENTY-NINTH CHAPTER

AT TREASURE ISLAND INN

DEAR MR. BEDIENT:

ADITH MALLORY

THIRTIETH CHAPTER

MISS MALLORY'S MASTERY

THIRTY-FIRST CHAPTER

THE GLOW-WORM'S ONE HOUR

THIRTY-SECOND CHAPTER

IN THE LITTLE ROOM NEXT

THIRTY-THIRD CHAPTER

THE HILLS AND THE SKIES

THIRTY-FOURTH CHAPTER

THE SUPREME ADVENTURE

THIRTY-FIFTH CHAPTER

FATE KNOCKS AT THE DOOR

IV

NEW YORK

THIRTY-SIXTH CHAPTER

THE GREAT PRINCE HOUSE

THIRTY-SEVENTH CHAPTER

BETH AND ADITH MALLORY

THIRTY-EIGHTH CHAPTER

A SELF-CONSCIOUS WOMAN

THIRTY-NINTH CHAPTER

ANOTHER SMILAX AFFAIR

I BELIEVE

FORTIETH CHAPTER

FULL DAY UPON THE PLAIN

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Will Levington Comfort

A Novel

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Cairns started to say something about this, but the words didn't come quickly enough, and Bedient went on:

"There is a picture of that day which always means war to me. The soldier was hit mortally just as I got to him, but didn't fall at once, as one does when the spine or brain is touched. As my hands went out to him, he got it again and lost his legs, as if they were shot from under. His body, you see, fell the length of his legs. This second bullet was a Remington slug that shattered his hip. He had a full canteen strung over his shoulder, infantry fashion. The bullet that dropped him sitting on the trail, had gone through this to his hip. The canteen was spurting water. Mind you, it was the other wound that was killing him. There he sat dying on the road. I felt like dying for him—felt that I couldn't bear it if it took long. He was in my arms—and the canteen was emptying itself through the bullet-holes. Then he seemed to hear the water flopping out on the sand, and wriggled around to look at his hip, and I heard him mutter thickly: 'Look—look at the b-bl-blood run!'"

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