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Title: The Redemption of David Corson

Author: Charles Frederic Goss

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Language: English

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THE REDEMPTION OF DAVID CORSON

by

CHARLES FREDERIC GOSS

The Bowen-Merrill Company

1900

_To my friend
William Harvey Anderson_

Contents

I. This Other Eden
II. And Satan Came Also
III. The Egyptians
IV. The Woman
V. The Light That Lies
VI. The Trail of the Serpent
VII. The Chance Word
VIII. A Broken Reed
IX. Where Paths Converge
X. A Poisoned Spring
XI. The Flesh and the Devil
XII. The Moth and the Flame
XIII. Found Wanting
XIV. Turned Tempter
XV. The Snare of the Fowler
XVI. The Derelicts
XVII. The Shadow of Death
XVIII. A Fugitive and a Vagabond
XIX. Alienation
XX. The Inevitable Hour
XXI. A Signal in the Night
XXII. Heart Hunger
XXIII. Where I Might Find Him
XXIV. Safe Haven
XXV. The Little Lad
XXVI. Out of the Shadow
XXVII. If Thine Enemy Hunger
XXVIII. A Man Crossed With Adversity
XXIX. As a Tale That is Told
XXX. Out of the Jaws of Death
XXXI. The Great Refusal
XXXII. The End of Exile
XXXIII. A Self-imposed Expiation
XXXIV. Fasting in the Wilderness
XXXV. A Forest Idyl
XXXVI. The Supreme Test
XXXVII. Paradise Regained

CHAPTER I.

THIS OTHER EDEN

"This other Eden, demi-paradise, this fortress built by nature."
--Richard II.

Hidden away in this worn and care-encumbered world, scarred with its
frequent traces of a primeval curse, are spots so quiet and beautiful as
to make the fall of man seem incredible, and awaken in the breast of the
weary traveler who comes suddenly upon them, a vague and dear delusion
that he has stumbled into Paradise.

Such an Eden existed in the extr