Chapter I: Front Matter

Appletons’
Town and Country
Library

No. 291

A PRIVATE CHIVALRY

PRIVATE CHIVALRY

_A NOVEL_

BY
FRANCIS LYNDE

AUTHOR OF A ROMANCE IN TRANSIT,
THE HELPERS, ETC.

Acts more dangerous, but less famous
because they were but private chivalries.

SIR PHILIP SIDNEY

NEW YORK
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
1900

COPYRIGHT, 1900,
BY D. APPLETON AND COMPANY.

_All rights reserved._

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I.--THE WOMAN ... WHOSE HANDS ARE AS BANDS 1

II.--THE VINTAGE OF ABI-EZER 13

III.--“THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS” 23

IV.--THE MIGRANTS 33

V.--THE SCALE ASCENDING 44

VI.--A MOLEHILL LEVELLED 49

VII.--AND A MOUNTAIN UPREARED 55

VIII.--A BLOW IN THE DARK 64

IX.--THE EYE TO THE STRING 72

X.--THE STRING TO THE SHAFT 78

XI.--AND THE SHAFT TO THE MARK 85

XII.--THE WAY OF A MAID WITH A MAN 88

XIII.--“THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY” 99

XIV.--THE ANCHOR COMES HOME 107

XV.--WHEN HATE AND FEAR STRIKE HANDS 118

XVI.--THE GOODLY COMPANY OF MISERY 125

XVII.--“AS APPLES OF GOLD IN PICTURES OF SILVER” 131

XVIII.--“LET THE RIGHTEOUS SMITE ME FRIENDLY” 139

XIX.--THE LEADING OF THE BLIND 149

XX.--THE DEMONIAC 159

XXI.--“A ROD FOR THE FOOL’S BACK” 166

XXII.--HOW THE SMOKING FLAX WAS QUENCHED 177

XXIII.--HOW DOROTHY BLEW THE EMBERS ALIVE 190

XXIV.--“WHOSO DIGGETH A PIT SHALL FALL THEREIN” 201

XXV.--“SILENCE IS AN ANSWER TO A WISE MAN” 213

XXVI.--IN THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW 221

XXVII.--SHOWING HOW FAITH MAY OUT-BUFFET A FACT 234

XXVIII.--HOW THE JUDGE GAVE OF HIS BEST 243

XXIX.--IN WHICH A WILFUL MAN HAS HIS WAY 255

XXX.--HOW LOVE AND FRIENDSHIP THREW A MAIN 260

XXXI.--A FEAST OF MINGLED CUPS 266

XXXII.--SUCH FRIENDS ARE EXULTATION’S AGONY 276

XXXIII.--TE MORITURI SALUTAMUS 281

XXXIV.--THE WING-BEAT OF AZRAEL 290

XXXV.--THE WISDOM OF MANY AND THE WIT OF ONE 297

XXXVI.--IN WHICH A FOX DOUBLES ONCE TOO OFTEN 310

XXXVII.--THE LAW OF THE MEDES AND PERSIANS 321

XXXVIII.--IN WHICH DARTS ARE COUNTED AS STUBBLE 326

A PRIVATE CHIVALRY