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Title: Bye-Ways

Author: Robert Smythe Hichens

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Language: English

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BYE-WAYS

by

ROBERT HICHENS

Author of "The Garden of Allah,"
"Bella Donna," etc.

New York
Dodd, Mead and Company
1914

Copyright, 1897,
By Dodd, Mead and Company.

CONTENTS

PAGE

THE CHARMER OF SNAKES 3

A TRIBUTE OF SOULS

Prelude 89

I. The Stranger by the Burn 90

II. The Soul of Dr Wedderburn 111

III. The Soul of Kate Walters 131

IV. The Soul of Hugh Fraser 142

V. The Return of the Grey Traveller 159
Written in conjunction with
Lord Frederick Hamilton.

AN ECHO IN EGYPT 171

THE FACE OF THE MONK 211

THE MAN WHO INTERVENED 237

AFTER TO-MORROW 267

A SILENT GUARDIAN 287

A BOUDOIR BOY 319

THE TEE-TO-TUM 343

BYE-WAYS

THE CHARMER OF SNAKES

I

The petulant whining of the jackals prevented Renfrew from sleeping. At
first he lay still on his camp bed, staring at the orifice of the bell
tent, which was only partially covered by the canvas flap let down by
Mohammed, after he had bidden his master good-night. Behind the tent the
fettered mules stamped on the rough, dry ground, and now and then the
heavy rustling of a wild boar could be heard, as it shuffled throug