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[Illustration: "HE MAY GET LOST IN THE STORM."]
The Works of E. P. Roe
VOLUME FIVE
BARRIERS BURNED AWAY
ILLUSTRATED
NEW YORK
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1872, by
In the Office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington
COPYRIGHT, 1882
COPYRIGHT, 1885
COPYRIGHT, 1892
COPYRIGHT, 1900,
This Book
IS REVERENTLY DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF MY MOTHER
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
I shall say but few words in regard to this first child of my imagination.
About one year ago our hearts were in deepest sympathy with our fellow-citizens of Chicago, and it occurred to me that their losses, sufferings, and fortitude might teach lessons after the echoes of the appalling event had died away in the press; and that even the lurid and destructive flames might reveal with greater vividness the need and value of Christian faith.
I spent some days among the smouldering ruins, and then began the following simple story, which has grown into larger proportions than I at first intended. But comparatively a small part of the narrative is occupied with the fire, for its scenes are beyond description, and too strange and terrible to be dwelt upon. Therefore the thread of my story is carried rapidly through that period of unparalleled excitement and disaster.
Nearly all the scenes introduced are historical, and are employed to give their terrible emphasis to that which is equally true in the serenest and securest times.
E. P. R.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER I LOVE UNKNOWN
CHAPTER II LOVE KNOWN
CHAPTER III LAUNCHED
CHAPTER IV COLD WATER
CHAPTER V A HORNET'S NEST
CHAPTER VI "STARVE THEN!"
CHAPTER VII A GOOD SAMARITAN
CHAPTER VIII YAHCOB BUNK
CHAPTER IX LAND AT LAST CHAPTER X THE NEW BROOM
CHAPTER XI TOO MUCH ALIKE
CHAPTER XII BLUE BLOOD
CHAPTER XIII VERY COLD
CHAPTER XIV SHE SPEAKS TO HIM
CHAPTER XV PROMOTED
CHAPTER XVI JUST IN TIME
CHAPTER XVII RESCUED
CHAPTER XVIII MISS LUDOLPH MAKES A DISCOVERY
CHAPTER XIX WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH HIM?
CHAPTER XX IS HE A GENTLEMAN?
CHAPTER XXI CHRISTINE'S IDEA OF CHRISTIANS
CHAPTER XXII EQUAL TO AN EMERGENCY
CHAPTER XXIII THE REVELATION
CHAPTER XXIV NIGHT THOUGHTS CHAPTER XXV DARKNESS CHAPTER XXVI MISS LUDOLPH COMMITS A THEFT
