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Title: The Man Who Rose Again

Author: Joseph Hocking

Release Date: September 28, 2010 [EBook #33964]

Language: English

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THE MAN WHO ROSE AGAIN

BY JOSEPH HOCKING

WITH FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS IN COLOUR

CINCINNATI
JENNINGS & GRAHAM

PRINTED IN 1907

_The central idea of this story is based upon an incident in real life,
related to me by C. Hagberg Wright, Esq., LL.D., of the London Library,
to whom I wish to express my grateful acknowledgment and sincere
thanks._

_J. H._

[Illustration: "What do our pattern young men say?" sneered Leicester.]

CONTENTS

I. A CYNIC'S CHALLENGE

II. THE CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

III. THE MAN AND THE WOMAN MEET

IV. A DOUBLE PERSONALITY

V. THE STRENGTHENING OF THE CHAIN

VI. LEICESTER'S WOOING

VII. A WOMAN'S HEART

VIII. THE FOUR MEN MEET AGAIN

IX. THE NIGHT BEFORE THE WEDDING

X. THE WEDDING-DAY

XI. LEICESTER AND WINFIELD

XII. THE LAST LINK BROKEN

XIII. DEGRADATION

XIV. LEICESTER'S FAREWELL TO TAVITON

XV. THE CYNIC AND THE COUNTRYWOMAN

XVI. A GRIM JOKE

XVII. HOW OLIVE RECEIVED THE NEWS

XVIII. OLIVE'S LIFE IN DEVONSHIRE

XIX. THE MAN WITH THE FEZ

XX. HERBERT BRIARFIELD AND THE STRANGER

XXI. A GAME OF GOLF--A GAME OF LIFE

XXII. SIGNOR RICORDO AND OLIVE

XXIII. SPRAGUE'S EXPLANATION

XXIV. RICORDO'S REMINISCENCES

XXV. THE COMING OF WINFIELD

XXVI. REVELATIONS

XXVII. RICORDO'S WOOING

XXVIII. THE SECOND MEETING OF THE CYNIC AND THE COUNTRYWOMAN

XXIX. GOD AND THE MAN

XXX. THE MAN WHO ROSE AGAIN

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"WHAT DO OUR PATTERN YOUNG MEN SAY?" SNEERED LEICESTER.

"WITH YOU FOR MY WIFE, I CAN DO ANYTHING."

SIGNOR RICORDO.

SHE GAZED AT HIM DUMBFOUNDED.

THE MAN WHO ROSE AGAIN

CHAPTER I

A CYNIC'S CHALLENGE

Four men sat i