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Title: Phantom Wires
A Novel

Author: Arthur Stringer

Illustrator: Arthur William Brown

Release Date: November 7, 2006 [EBook #19735]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: "She turned with a start, though her loss of
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PHANTOM WIRES

A Novel

BY

ARTHUR STRINGER

Author of "The Wire Tappers," "The Loom of Destiny," etc.

ILLUSTRATED BY

ARTHUR WILLIAM BROWN

BOSTON

LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY

Copyright, 1908,

BY ARTHUR STRINGER.

Copyright, 1907,

BY LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY.

All Rights Reserved.

I

_It's the bad that's in the best of us
Leaves the saint so like the rest of us:
It's the good in the darkest curst of us
Redeems and saves the worst of us._

II

_It's the muddle of hope and madness,
It's the tangle of good and badness,
It's the lunacy linked with sanity,
Makes up and mocks Humanity!_

A. S.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE END OF THE TETHER
II. THE AZURE COAST
III. THE SHADOWING PAST
IV. THE WIDENING ROAD
V. THE GREAT DIVIDE
VI. THE WOMAN SPEAKS
VII. OUR FRIEND THE ENEMY
VIII. "FOREIGNERS ARE FOOLS"
IX. THE LARK IN THE RUINS
X. THE TIGHTENING COIL
XI. THE INTOXICATION OF WAR
XII. THE DOORWAY OF SURPRISE
XIII. "THE FOLLY OF GRANDEUR"
XIV. AWAKENING VOICES
XV. WIRELESS MESSAGES
XVI. BROKEN INSULATION
XVII. THE TANGLED SKEIN
XVIII. THE SEVERED KNOT
XIX. THE ULTIMATE OUTCAST
XX. THE SPIDER AND THE FLY
XXI. THE PIT OF DESPAIR
XXII. THE ENTERING WEDGE
XXIII. THE WAKING CIRCUIT
XXIV. THE GHOSTS OF THOUGHT
XXV. THE RULING PASSION
XXVI. THE CROWN OF IRON
XXVII. THE STRAITS OF CHANCE
XXVIII. THE HUMAN ELEMENT
XXIX. THE LAST DITCH
XXX. ONE YEAR LATER--AN EPILOGUE

PHANTOM WIRES

CHAPTER I

THE END OF THE TETHER

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