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by Edward Payson Roe




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  "HE MAY GET LOST IN THE STORM."]

  The Works of E. P. Roe

  VOLUME FIVE

  BARRIERS BURNED AWAY

  ILLUSTRATED

  NEW YORK

  Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by

  In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington

  COPYRIGHT, 1882

  COPYRIGHT, 1885

  COPYRIGHT, 1892

  COPYRIGHT, 1900,

  This Book

  IS REVERENTLY DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER

  PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION

  I shall say but few words in regard to this first child of myimagination.

  About one year ago our hearts were in deepest sympathy with ourfellow-citizens of Chicago, and it occurred to me that their losses,sufferings, and fortitude might teach lessons after the echoes of theappalling event had died away in the press; and that even the luridand destructive flames might reveal with greater vividness the needand value of Christian faith.

  I spent some days among the smouldering ruins, and then began thefollowing simple story, which has grown into larger proportions thanI at first intended. But comparatively a small part of the narrativeis occupied with the fire, for its scenes are beyond description, andtoo strange and terrible to be dwelt upon. Therefore the thread of mystory is carried rapidly through that period of unparalleled excitementand disaster.

  Nearly all the scenes introduced are historical, and are employed togive their terrible emphasis to that which is equally true in theserenest and securest times.

  E. P. R.

  CONTENTS

  CHAPTER ILOVE UNKNOWN

  CHAPTER IILOVE KNOWN

  CHAPTER IIILAUNCHED

  CHAPTER IVCOLD WATER

  CHAPTER VA HORNET'S NEST

  CHAPTER VI"STARVE THEN!"

  CHAPTER VIIA GOOD SAMARITAN

  CHAPTER VIIIYAHCOB BUNK

  CHAPTER IXLAND AT LASTCHAPTER XTHE NEW BROOM

  CHAPTER XITOO MUCH ALIKE

  CHAPTER XIIBLUE BLOOD

  CHAPTER XIIIVERY COLD

  CHAPTER XIVSHE SPEAKS TO HIM

  CHAPTER XVPROMOTED

  CHAPTER XVIJUST IN TIME

  CHAPTER XVIIRESCUED

  CHAPTER XVIIIMISS LUDOLPH MAKES A DISCOVERY

  CHAPTER XIXWHAT IS THE MATTER WITH HIM?

  CHAPTER XXIS HE A GENTLEMAN?

  CHAPTER XXICHRISTINE'S IDEA OF CHRISTIANS

  CHAPTER XXIIEQUAL TO AN EMERGENCY

  CHAPTER XXIIITHE REVELATION

  CHAPTER XXIVNIGHT THOUGHTSCHAPTER XXVDARKNESSCHAPTER XXVIMISS LUDOLPH COMMITS A THEFT

  CHAPTER XXVIIA MISERABLE TRIUMPH

  CHAPTER XXVIIILIFE WITHOUT LOVE

  CHAPTER XXIXDENNIS'S LOVE PUT TO PRACTICAL USE

  CHAPTER XXXTHE TWO HEIGHTS

  CHAPTER XXXIBEGUILED

  CHAPTER XXXIIBITTER DISAPPOINTMENT

  CHAPTER XXXIIITHE TWO PICTURES

  CHAPTER XXXIVREGRET

  CHAPTER XXXVREMORSE

  CHAPTER XXXVIAN APPARITION

  CHAPTER XXXVIIIF HE KNEW!

  CHAPTER XXXVIIITHE GATES OPEN

  CHAPTER XXXIXSUSIE WlNTHROP APPEARS AGAIN

  CHAPTER XLSUGGESTIVE PICTURES AND A PRIZE

  CHAPTER XLIFIRE! FIRE!

  CHAPTER XLIIBARON LUDOLPH LEARNS THE TRUTH

  CHAPTER XLIII"CHRISTINE, AWAKE! FOR YOUR LIFE!"

  CHAPTER XLIVON THE BEACH

  CHAPTER XLV"PRAYER IS MIGHTY." CHRISTINE A CHRISTIAN

  CHAPTER XLVICHRISTINE'S GRAVE

  CHAPTER XLVIISUSIE WINTHROP

  CHAPTER XLVIIIDR. ARTEN STRUCK BY LIGHTNING

  CHAPTER XLIXBILL CRONK'S TOAST

  CHAPTER LEVERY BARRIER BURNED AWAY

 

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