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+ When It Was Dark +
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WHEN IT WAS DARK

When It Was Dark

The Story of a Great Conspiracy

By

Guy Thorne

G. P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1906

COPYRIGHT, 1904
BY
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

Published, January, 1904
Reprinted, May, 1904; September, 1904
December, 1904; September, 1905
October, 1905; November, 1905; January, 1906

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

CONTENTS

BOOK I.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. An Incident by Way of Prologue 1

II. In the Vicar's Study 6

III. "I Think he is a Good Man" 23

IV. The Smoke Cloud at Dawn 33

V. A Lost Soul 45

VI. The Whisper 56

VII. Last Words at Walktown 69

VIII. A Dinner at the Pannier d'Or 77

IX. Inauguration 95

X. The Resurrection Sermon 107

XI. "Neither do I Condemn Thee" 116

XII. Powers of Good and Evil 126

BOOK II.

I. While London was Sleeping 141

II. Avoiding the Flower Pattern on the Carpet 165

III. "I, Joseph" 178

IV. The Domestic Chaplain's Testimony 184

V. Deus, Deus Meus, Quare Dereliquisti! 194

VI. Harness the Horses; and Get up, ye Horsemen,
and Stand forth with your Helmets, Furbish
the Spears, and Put on the Brigandines--Jer.
xlvi: 4 205

VII. The Hour of Chaos 212

VIII. The First Links 225

IX. Particular Instances, Contrasting the Old
Lady and the Special Correspondent 233

X. The Triumph of Sir Robert Llwellyn 245

XI. Progress 256

XII. A Soul alone on the Sea-Shore 262

BOOK III.

I. What it Meant to the World's Women 271

II. Cyril Hands Redux 283

III. All ye Inhabitants of the World, and
Dwellers on the Earth, See ye, when He
Lifteth up an Ensign on the Mountains--Is.
xviii: 3 289

IV. A Luncheon Party 302

V. By the Tower of Hippicus 322

VI. Under the Eastern Stars: towards Gerizim 342

VII. The Last Meeting 356

VIII. Death Coming with One Grace 364

IX. At Walktown Again 376

Epilogue 385