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The Works of E. P. Roe

VOLUME FIFTEEN

THE EARTH TREMBLED

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER I MARY WALLINGFORDCHAPTER II LOVE'S AGONYCHAPTER III UNCLE SHEBA'S EXPERIENCECHAPTER IV MARACHAPTER V PAST AND FUTURECHAPTER VI "PAHNASHIP"CHAPTER VII MARA'S PURPOSECHAPTER VIII NEVER FORGET; NEVER FORGIVECHAPTER IX A NEW SOLACECHAPTER X MISS AINSLEYCHAPTER XI TWO QUESTIONSCHAPTER XII A "FABULATION"CHAPTER XIII CAPTAIN BODINECHAPTER XIV "ALL GIRLS TOGETHER"CHAPTER XV TWO LITTLE BAKERSCHAPTER XVI HONEST FOESCHAPTER XVII FIRESIDE DRAMASCHAPTER XVIII A FAIR DUELLISTCHAPTER XIX A CHIVALROUS SURPRISECHAPTER XX THE STRANGER EXPLAINSCHAPTER XXI UNCLE SHEBA SAT UPONCHAPTER XXII YOUNG HOUGHTON IS DISCUSSEDCHAPTER XXIII THE WARNINGCHAPTER XXIV "THE IDEA!"CHAPTER XXV FEMININE FRIENDSCHAPTER XXVI ELLA'S CRUMB OF COMFORTCHAPTER XXVII RECOGNIZED AS LOVERCHAPTER XXVIII "HEAVEN SPEED YOU THEN"CHAPTER XXIX CONSTERNATIONCHAPTER XXX TEMPESTSCHAPTER XXXI "I ABSOLVE YOU"CHAPTER XXXII FALSE SELF-SACRIFICECHAPTER XXXIII A SURE TESTCHAPTER XXXIV "BITTERNESS MUST BE CHERISHED"CHAPTER XXXV NOBLE REVENGECHAPTER XXXVI A FATHER'S FRENZYCHAPTER XXXVII CLOUDS LIFTINGCHAPTER XXXVIII "YES, VILET"CHAPTER XXXIX THE EARTHQUAKECHAPTER XL "GOD"CHAPTER XLI SCENES NEVER TO BE FORGOTTENCHAPTER XLII A HOMELESS CITYCHAPTER XLIII "THE TERROR BY NIGHT"CHAPTER XLIV HOPE TURNED INTO DREADCHAPTER XLV A CITY ENCAMPINGCHAPTER XLVI "ON JORDAN'S BANKS WE STAN'"CHAPTER XLVII LIGHTS AND SHADOWS OF A NIGHTCHAPTER XLVIII GOOD BROUGHT OUT OF EVIL

THE EARTH TREMBLED

THE EARTH TREMBLED

CHAPTER I

MARY WALLINGFORD

At the beginning of the Civil War there was a fine old residence onMeeting Street in Charleston, South Carolina, inhabited by a family almostas old as the State. Its inheritor and owner, Orville Burgoyne, was awidower. He had been much saddened in temperament since the death of thewife, and had withdrawn as far as possible from public affairs. Hislibrary and the past had secured a stronger hold upon his interest and histhoughts than anything in the present, with one exception, his idolizedand only child, Mary, named for her deceased mother. Any book would belaid aside when she entered; all gloom banished from his eyes when shecoaxed and caressed him.

She was in truth one to be loved because so capable of love herself. Sheconquered and ruled every one not through wilfulness or imperiousness, butby a gentle charm, all her own, which disarmed opposition.

At first Mr. Burgoyne had paid little heed to the mutterings whichpreceded the Civil War, believing them to be but Chinese thunder, producedby ambitious politicians, North and South. He was preoccupied by the studyof an old system of philosophy which he fancied possessed more truth thanmany a more plausible and modern one. Mary, with some fancy work in herhands, often watched his deep abstraction in wondering awe, andoccasionally questioned him in regard to his thoughts and studies; but ashis expl

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