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Chapter I: Preface

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He best deserves a knightly crest,
Who slays the evils that infest
His soul within. If victor here,
He soon will find a wider sphere.
The world is cold to him who pleads;
The world bows low to knightly deeds.

CORNWALL ON THE HUDSON, N.Y.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I BAD TRAINING FOR A KNIGHT

CHAPTER II BOTH APOLOGIZE

CHAPTER III CHAINED TO AN ICEBERG

CHAPTER IV IMMATURE

CHAPTER V PASSION'S CLAMOR

CHAPTER VI "GLOOMY GRANDEUR"

CHAPTER VII BIRDS OF PREY

CHAPTER VIII THEIR VICTIM

CHAPTER IX PAT AND THE PRESS

CHAPTER X RETURNING CONSCIOUSNESS

CHAPTER XI HALDANE IS ARRESTED

CHAPTER XII A MEMORABLE MEETING

CHAPTER XIII OUR KNIGHT IN JAIL

CHAPTER XIV MR. ARNOT'S SYSTEM WORKS BADLY

CHAPTER XV HALDANE'S RESOLVE

CHAPTER XVI THE IMPULSES OF WOUNDED PRIDE

CHAPTER XVII AT ODDS WITH THE WORLD

CHAPTER XVIII THE WORLD'S VERDICT--OUR KNIGHT A CRIMINAL

CHAPTER XIX THE WORLD'S BEST OFFER--A PRISON

CHAPTER XX MAIDEN AND WOOD-SAWYER

CHAPTER XXI MAGNANIMOUS MR. SHRUMPF

CHAPTER XXII A MAN WHO HATED HIMSELF

CHAPTER XXIII MR. GROWTHER BECOMES GIGANTIC

CHAPTER XXIV HOW PUBLIC OPINION IS OFTEN MADE

CHAPTER XXV A PAPER PONIARD

CHAPTER XXVI A SORRY KNIGHT

CHAPTER XXVII GOD SENT HIS ANGEL

CHAPTER XXVIII FACING THE CONSEQUENCES

CHAPTER XXIX HOW EVIL ISOLATES

CHAPTER XXX IDEAL KNIGHTHOOD

CHAPTER XXXI THE LOW STARTING-POINT

CHAPTER XXXII A SACRED REFRIGERATOR

CHAPTER XXXIII A DOUBTFUL BATTLE IN PROSPECT

CHAPTER XXXIV A FOOT-HOLD

CHAPTER XXXV THAT SERMON WAS A BOMB-SHELL

CHAPTER XXXVI MR. GROWTHER FEEDS AN ANCIENT GRUDGE

CHAPTER XXXVII HOPING FOR A MIRACLE

CHAPTER XXXVIII THE MIRACLE TAKES PLACE

CHAPTER XXXIX VOTARIES OF THE WORLD

CHAPTER XL HUMAN NATURE

CHAPTER XLI MRS. ARNOT'S CREED

CHAPTER XLII THE LEVER THAT MOVES THE WORLD

CHAPTER XLIII MR. GROWTHER "STUMPED"

CHAPTER XLIV GROWTH

CHAPTER XLV LAURA ROMEYN

CHAPTER XLVI MISJUDGED

CHAPTER XLVII LAURA CHOOSES HER KNIGHT

CHAPTER XLVIII MRS. ARNOT'S KNIGHT

CHAPTER XLIX A KNIGHTLY DEED

CHAPTER L "O DREADED DEATH!"

CHAPTER LI "O PRICELESS LIFE!"

CHAPTER LII A MAN VERSUS A CONNOISSEUR

CHAPTER LIII EXIT OF LAURA'S FIRST KNIGHT

CHAPTER LIV ANOTHER KNIGHT APPEARS

A KNIGHT OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY

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