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Title: With Edged Tools

Author: Henry Seton Merriman

Release Date: September, 2005 [EBook #8939]
Posting Date: July 31, 2009

Language: English

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WITH EDGED TOOLS

By Henry Seton Merriman

"Of the same clay he maketh both the vessels that serve for clean
uses, and likewise also such as serve to the contrary; but what is
the use of either sort, the potter himself is the judge."

TO JAMES PAYN

A TOKEN OF SINCERE REGARD

CONTENTS

I. TWO GENERATIONS
II. OVER THE OLD GROUND
III. A FAREWELL
IV. A TRAGEDY
V. WITH EDGED TOOLS
VI. UNDER THE LINE
VII. THE SECRET OF THE SIMIACINE
VIII. A RECRUIT
IX. TO PASS THE TIME
X. LOANGO
XI. A COMPACT
XII. A MEETING
XIII. IN BLACK AND WHITE
XIV. PANIC-STRICKEN
XV. A CONFIDENCE
XVI. WAR
XVII. UNDERHAND
XVIII. A REQUEST
XIX. IVORY
XX. BROUGHT TO THE SCRATCH
XXI. THE FIRST CONSIGNMENT
XXII. THE SECOND CONSIGNMENT
XXIII. MERCURY
XXIV. NEMESIS
XXV. TO THE RESCUE
XXVI. IN PERIL
XXVII. OFF DUTY
XXVIII. A SLOW RECOVERY
XXIX. A CHANCE ACQUAINTANCE
XXX. OLD BIRDS
XXXI. SEED-TIME
XXXII. AN ENVOY
XXXIII. DARK DEALING
XXXIV. AMONG THORNS
XXXV. ENGAGED
XXXVI. NO COMPROMISE
XXXVII. FOUL PLAY
XXXVIII. THE ACCURSED CAMP
XXXIX. THE EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCE
XL. SIR JOHNS LAST CARD
XLI. A TROIS
XLII. A STRONG FRIENDSHIP
XLIII. A LONG DEBT
XLIV. MADE UP
XLV. THE TELEGRAM

CHAPTER I. TWO GENERATIONS

Why all delights are vain, but that most vain
Which with pain purchased doth inherit pain.

"My dear--