Satan Sanderson

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SATAN SANDERSON

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Books by

HALLIE ERMINIE RIVES (Mrs. Post Wheeler)

A FURNACE OF EARTH

HEARTS COURAGEOUS Illustrated by A. B. Wenzell

THE CASTAWAY Illustrated by Howard Chandler Christy

TALES FROM DICKENS Illustrated by Reginald B. Birch

SATAN SANDERSON Illustrated by A. B. Wenzell

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[Illustration]

SATAN SANDERSON

by

HALLIE ERMINIE RIVES

Author of The Castaway, Hearts Courageous, etc.

With Illustrations by A. B. Wenzell

Indianapolis The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers

Copyright 1907 The Bobbs-Merrill Company

August

Press of Braunworth & Co. Bookbinders and Printers Brooklyn, N. Y.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE I AS A MAN SOWS 1

II DOCTOR MOREAU 15

III THE COMING OF A PRODIGAL 20

IV THE LANE THAT HAD NO TURNING 32

V THE BISHOP SPEAKS 47

VI WHAT CAME OF A WEDDING 50

VII OUT OF THE DARK 60

VIII "AM I MY BROTHER'S KEEPER?" 68

IX AFTER A YEAR 75

X THE GAME 85

XI HALLELUJAH JONES TAKES A HAND 95

XII THE FALL OF THE CURTAIN 105

XIII THE CLOSED DOOR 108

XIV THE WOMAN WHO REMEMBERED 115

XV THE MAN WHO HAD FORGOTTEN 125

XVI THE AWAKENING 137

XVII AT THE TURN OF THE TRAIL 147

XVIII THE STRENGTH OF THE WEAK 155

XIX THE EVIL EYE 160

XX MRS. HALLORAN TELLS A STORY 167

XXI A VISIT AND A VIOLIN 171

XXII THE PASSING OF PRENDERGAST 179

XXIII A RACE WITH DEATH 187

XXIV ON SMOKY MOUNTAIN 198

XXV THE OPEN WINDOW 210

XXVI LIKE A THIEF IN THE NIGHT 222

XXVII INTO THE GOLDEN SUNSET 229

XXVIII THE TENANTLESS HOUSE 238

XXIX THE CALL OF LOVE 250

XXX IN A FOREST OF ARDEN 259

XXXI THE REVELATION OF HALLELUJAH JONES 269

XXXII THE WHITE HORSE SKIN 277

XXXIII THE RENEGADE 282

XXXIV THE TEMPTATION 289

XXXV FELDER TAKES A CASE 302

XXXVI THE HAND AT THE DOOR 305

XXXVII THE PENITENT THIEF 311

XXXVIII A DAY FOR THE STATE 319

XXXIX THE UNSUMMONED WITNESS 331

XL FATE'S WAY 335

XLI FELDER WALKS WITH DOCTOR BRENT 339

XLII THE RECKONING 344

XLIII THE LITTLE GOLD CROSS 353

XLIV THE IMPOSTOR 360

XLV AN APPEAL TO CÆSAR 369

XLVI FACE TO FACE 376

XLVII BETWEEN THE MILLSTONES 384

XLVIII THE VERDICT 390

XLIX THE CRIMSON DISK 395

L WHEN DREAMS COME TRUE 397

SATAN SANDERSON

CHAPTER I

AS A MAN SOWS

"_To my son Hugh, in return for the care and sorrow he has caused me all the days of his life, for his dissolute career and his desertion, I do give and bequeath the sum of one thousand dollars and the memory of his misspent youth._"

It was very quiet in the wide, richly furnished library. The May night was still, but a faint suspiration, heavy with the fragrance of jasmin flowers, stirred the Venetian blind before the open window and rustled the moon-silvered leaves of the aspens outside. As the incisive professional pronouncement of the judge cut through the lamp-lighted silence, the grim, furrowed face with its sunken eyes and gray military mustaches on the pillow of the wheel-chair set more grimly; a girl seated in the damask shadow of the fire-screen caught her breath; and from across the polished table the Reverend Henry Sanderson turned his handsome, clean-shaven face and looked at the old man.