By Henry Seton Merriman
By Henry Seton Merriman
1913
“'Tis all a Chequer-board of Nights and Days Where Destiny with Men for Pieces plays: Hither and thither moves, and mates, and slays, And one by one back in the Closet lays”
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. IN ST. JACOB STRAAT.
CHAPTER II. WORK OR PLAY?
CHAPTER III. BEGINNING AT HOME.
CHAPTER IV. A NEW DISCIPLE.
CHAPTER V. OUT OF EGYPT.
CHAPTER VI. ON THE DUNES.
CHAPTER VII. OFFICIAL.
CHAPTER VIII. THE SEAMY SIDE.
CHAPTER IX. A SHADOW FROM THE PAST.
CHAPTER X. DEEPER WATER.
CHAPTER XI. IN THE OUDE WEG.
CHAPTER XII. SUBURBAN
CHAPTER XIII. THE MAKING OF A MAN.
CHAPTER XIV. UNSOUND.
CHAPTER XV. PLAIN SPEAKING.
CHAPTER XVI. DANGER.
CHAPTER XVII. PLAIN SPEAKING.
CHAPTER XVIII. A COMPLICATION.
CHAPTER XIX. DANGER.
CHAPTER XX. FROM THE PAST.
CHAPTER XXI. A COMBINED FORCE.
CHAPTER XXII. GRATITUDE.
CHAPTER XXIII. A REINFORCEMENT.
CHAPTER XXIV. A BRIGHT AND SHINING LIGHT.
CHAPTER XXV. CLEARING THE AIR
CHAPTER XXVI. THE ULTIMATUM.
CHAPTER XXVII. COMMERCE.
CHAPTER XXVIII. WITH CARE.
CHAPTER XXIX. A LESSON.
CHAPTER XXX. ON THE QUEEN'S CANAL.
CHAPTER XXXI. AT THE CORNER.
CHAPTER XXXII. ROUND THE CORNER.