The Hindered Hand; or, The Reign of the Repressionist. Sutton E. Griggs
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Sutton E. Griggs
The Hindered Hand; or, The Reign of the Repressionist
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066177096
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. Occurrences That Puzzle.
CHAPTER II. His Face Was Her Guide.
CHAPTER III. Wherein Foresta First Appears.
CHAPTER IV. The Ways of A Seeker After Fame.
CHAPTER V. Rather Late In Life To Be Still Nameless.
CHAPTER VII. Officers Of The Law.
CHAPTER VIII. A Messenger That Hesitates.
CHAPTER X. Arabelle Seabright.
CHAPTER XI. Unusual For A Man.
CHAPTER XII. A Honeymoon Out Of The Usual Order.
CHAPTER XIII. Shrewd Mrs. Crawford.
CHAPTER XV. Unexpected Developments.
CHAPTER XVI. An Eager Searcher.
CHAPTER XVII. Peculiar Divorce Proceedings.
CHAPTER XVIII. Mists That Vanish.
CHAPTER XIX. The Fugitives Flee Again.
CHAPTER XXII. The Two Pathways.
CHAPTER XXIV. Out of Joint With His Times.
CHAPTER XXV. A Joyful Farewell.
CHAPTER XXVII. Tiara Mystifies Us.
CHAPTER XXX. Mr. A. Hostility.
CHAPTER XXXII. Working and Waiting.
CHAPTER XXXIII. Back in Almaville.
CHAPTER XXXIV. A Great Day in Court.
CHAPTER XXXVI. Enthusiastic John Blue.
CHAPTER XXXVII. Postponing His Shout of Triumph.
CHAPTER XXXVIII. He Cannot, But He Does!
CHAPTER XXXIX. A Son of the New South.
CHAPTER XL. Sorrow and Gladness.
TUNING THE LYRE.
In the long ago when the earth was in process of formation, it must have been that those forces of nature most expert in the fashioning of the beautiful were ordered to come together as collaborators and give to the world Almaville!
Journeying toward the designated spot, they halted on the outskirts of the site of the contemplated city, and tossed up a series of engirdling hills, whose slopes and crests covered with verdure might afford in the days to come a beautiful sight to the inhabitants when riding forth to get a whiff of country air. These same forces of nature, evidently in love with their work, arranged, it seems, for all the beautiful clouds with their varying hues to pass in daily review over the head of the city to be born.
In all that appertains to physical excellence Almaville was made attractive, and somewhere, perhaps behind yon hills, the forces rested until man set his foot upon the soil and prepared to build. They so charged the air and all the environments with the spirit of the beautiful,