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Contents



NINTH CHAPTER.
   PAULA IS DRAWN INTO THE SELMA CROSS PAST AND
   IS BRAVELY WOOED THROUGH FURTHER MESSAGES
   FROM THE WEST .................................. 110

TENTH CHAPTER.
   PAULA SEES SELMA CROSS IN TRAGEDY, AND IN HER
   OWN APARTMENT NEXT MORNING IS GIVEN A REALITY
   TO  PLAY .9..................................... .  Jig

ELEVENTH CHAPTER.
   PAULA IS SWEPT DEEP INTO A DESOLATE COUNTRY BY
   THE HIGH TIDE, BUT NOTES A QUICK CHANGE IN
   SELMA CROSS .................. 138

TWELFTH CHAPTER.
   CERTAIN ELEMENTS FOR THE CHARTER CRUCIBLE,
   AND HIS MOTHER'S PILGRIMAGE ACROSS THE SANDS
   ALONE TO MECCA .1.............................. I52

THIRTEENTH CHAPTER.
   "No MAN CAN ENTER INTO A STRONG MAN'S HOUSE,
   AND SPOIL HIS GOODS, EXCEPT HE WILL FIRST BIND
   THE STRONG MAN..       ............... x6o

FOURTEENTH CHAPTER.
   THE SINGING OF THE SKYLARK CEASES ABRUPTLY;
   CHARTER HASTENS EAST TO FIND A QUEER MESSAGE
   AT THE GRANVILLE ................................. 179

FIFTEENTH CHAPTER.
   QUENTIN CHARTER AND SELMA CROSS JOIN ISSUE ON
   A NEW BATTLE-GROUND, EACH LEAVING THE FIELD
   WITH OPEN WOUNDS.....      ............    194

SIXTEENTH CHAPTER.
   PAULA, FINDING THAT BOTH GIANTS HAVE ENTERED
   HER CASTLE, RUSHES IN TUMULT INTO THE NIGHT.. 213

SEVENTEENTH CHAPTER.
   PAULA SAILS INTO THE SOUTH, SEEKING THE HOLY
   MAN OP SAINT PIERRE, WHERE LA MONTAGNE PELEB
   GIVES  WARNING ........... .......................  223

EIGHTEENTH CHAPTER.
   PAULA IS INVOLVED IN THE RENDING FORTUNES OF
   SAINT PIERRE AND THE PANTHER CALLS WITH NEW
   YORK MAIL ...................................... 233