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IS DEDICATED TO MY BROTHER Along the shore the cloud waves break, The twin suns sink behind the lake, The shadows lengthen In Carcosa.

I Because it all seems so improbable--so horribly impossible to me now, sitting here safe and sane in my own library--I hesitate to record an episode which already appears to me less horrible tha...

CHAPTER I THE SEAGRAVES All day Sunday they had raised the devil from attic to cellar; Mrs. Farren was in tears, Howker desperate.

Cup and Lip

by Robert W. Chambers, 1914 TO MY MOTHER Whatever merit may lie in this book is due to her wisdom, her sympathy and her teaching ...

BY ROBERT W. CHAMBERS [Illustration] WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY A. I. KELLER ...

CHAPTER I THE YEZIDEE Only when the _Nan-yang Maru_ sailed from Yuen-San did her terrible sense of foreboding begin to subside.

Published October, 1904.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS His strained gaze sought to fix itself on this face before him Frontispiece Nihla put her feathered steed through its absu...

[Illustration] [Illustration] LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS "She almost wished some fisherman might come into view" "'Those squirrels are very tame,' she observed calmly" "'Are you not terribly imp...

THE MAID-AT-ARMS A Novel By Robert W. Chambers Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy 1902 TO MISS KATHARINE HUSTED PREFACE After a hundred years the history of a great war waged by...

CHAPTER I HIS OWN PEOPLE "You never met Selwyn, did you?"

TO MY FATHER AND MOTHER INTRODUCTION This is the Land of the Pioneer, Where a life-long feud was healed; Where the League of the Men whose Coats were Red ...

[Illustration: "I HATE IT AS YOU HATED THE BEASTS WHO SLEW YOUR FRIEND"] THE CRIMSON TIDE A NOVEL By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS Author of "The Moonlit Way," "The Laughing Girl," "The Restless Sex," ...

[Illustration: Elsin Grey.] _The_ RECKONING BY ROBERT W. CHAMBERS AUTHOR OF "CARDIGAN," "THE MAID-AT-ARMS," "THE KING IN YELLOW," ETC.

BY ROBERT W. CHAMBERS ILLUSTRATED BY HENRY HUTT NEW YORK AND LONDON D. APPLETON AND COMPANY ...

CHAPTER I SIR WILLIAM PASSES The day Sir William died there died the greatest American of his day.

[Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: "She looked at him almost insolently.

I There was a new crescent moon in the west which, with the star above it, made an agreeable oriental combination.

CHAPTER I.--A SKIRMISH CHAPTER II.--A LANDING CHAPTER III.--AN ADVANCE CHAPTER IV.--RECONNAISSANCE CHAPTER V.--A FLANK MOVEMENT CHAPTER VI.--ARMISTICE CHAPTER VI...

CHAPTER I. ACQUAINTANCE The speed of the train slackened; a broad tidal river flashed into sight below the trestle, spreading away on either hand through yellowing level meadows.

I AT THE TELEGRAPH On the third day of August, 1870, I left Paris in search of John Buckhurst.

CHAPTER I When Mrs. Greensleeve first laid eyes on her baby she knew it was different from the other children.

The Adventures of a Modest Man Ailsa Paige The Danger Mark Special Messenger The Firing Line The Younger Set The Fighting Chance Some Ladies in Haste The Tree of Heaven The Tracer...

The Flaming Jewel By Robert W. Chambers Author of "Ailsa Paige," "Athalie," "Barbarians," "The Business of Life," "The Crimson Tide," "The Dark Star," "The Fighting Chance," "The Girl Philippa," "...

CHAPTER I [Illustration: "'A lady to see you, sir'"] "A lady to see you, sir," said Farris.

By ROBERT W. CHAMBERS [Illustration] D. APPLETON & CO.

I It was now almost too dark to distinguish objects; duskier and vaguer became the flat world of marshes, set here and there with cypress and bounded only by far horizons; and at last land and wa...

By Robert W. Chambers 1914 I Like a man who reenters a closed and darkened house and lies down; lying there, remains conscious of sunlight outside, of bird-calls, and the breeze in the trees...

EPISODE ONE EVE I During the last two years Fate, Chance, and Destiny had been too busy to attend to Mike Clinch.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS FACING PAGE "Daintily her handsome horse set foot in the water" Frontispiece "'They seem to be allfired ...

CHAPTER I CUP AND LIP The case in question concerned a letter in a yellow envelope, which was dumped along with other incoming mail upon one of the many long tables where hundreds of women an...

CHAPTER I The butler made an instinctive movement to detain him, but he flung him aside and entered the drawing-room, the servant recovering his equilibrium and following on a run.