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Title: Foe-Farrell
Author: Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
Release Date: August 25, 2006 [EBook #19114]
Language: English
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FOE-FARRELL.
By Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch.
TO ANYONE WHO SUPPOSES THAT HE HAS A WORSE ENEMY THAN HIMSELF.
CONTENTS.
BOOK I--INGREDIENTS.
PROLOGUE.
NIGHT THE FIRST--John Foe.
NIGHT THE SECOND--The Meeting at the Baths.
NIGHT THE THIRD--The Grand research.
NIGHT THE FOURTH--Adventure of the Police Station.
NIGHT THE FIFTH--Adventure of the "Catalafina".
NIGHT THE SIXTH--Adventure of the Picturedrome.
NIGHT THE SEVENTH--The Outrage.
BOOK II--THE CHASE.
NIGHT THE EIGHTH--Vendetta.
NIGHT THE NINTH--The Hunt is Up.
NIGHT THE TENTH--Pilgrimage of Hate.
NIGHT THE ELEVENTH--Science of the Chase.
NIGHT THE TWELFTH--The _Emania_.
NIGHT THE THIRTEENTH--Escape.
BOOK III--THE RETRIEVE.
NIGHT THE FOURTEENTH--San Ramon
NIGHT THE FIFTEENTH--Redivivus.
NIGHT THE SIXTEENTH--Captain Macnaughten.
NIGHT THE SEVENTEENTH--No. 2 Boat.
NIGHT THE EIGHTEENTH--"And so they came to the Island . . ."
NIGHT THE NINETEENTH--The Castaways.
NIGHT THE TWENTIETH--One Man Escapes.
BOOK IV--THE COUNTERCHASE.
NIGHT THE TWENTY-FIRST--The Yellow Dog.
NIGHT THE TWENTY-SECOND--The Second Man escapes.
NIGHT THE TWENTY-THIRD--Counterchase.
NIGHT THE TWENTY-FOURTH--Constantia.
NIGHT THE TWENTY-FIFTH--The Paying of the Score.
EPILOGUE.
BOOK I.
INGREDIENTS.
If the red slayer thinks he slays,
Or if the slain think he is slain,
They know not well the subtle ways
I keep, and pass, and turn again.
EMERSON: _Brahma_.
The best kind of revenge is not to become like him.
MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS.
PROLOGUE
Otway told this story in a dug-out which served for officers' mess of
a field-battery somewhere near the Aisne: but it has nothing to do
with the War. He
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