Chapters (58)
- CHARRED WOOD
- MYLES MUREDACH
- ILLUSTRATED BY
- J. CLINTON SHEPHERD
- GROSSET & DUNLAP
- PUBLISHERS —- NEW YORK
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- On Killimaga's Cliff. . . . . Frontispiece Something white swished quickly past him and he stared, bewildered . . . She had stepped out of nowhere. Saunders looked long and earnestly at his face. "He's the man!" he announced. "God rest her," Father Murray said after what seemed an age to Mark; "it is not Ruth!"
- Charred Wood
- CHAPTER I
- THE LADY OF THE TREE
- CHAPTER II
- MONSIGNORE
- CHAPTER III
- UNDER SUSPICION
- CHAPTER IV
- KILLIMAGA
- CHAPTER V
- WITH EMPTY HANDS
- CHAPTER VI
- WHO IS RUTH?
- CHAPTER VII
- BITTER BREAD
- CHAPTER VIII
- FATHER MURRAY OF SIHASSET
- CHAPTER IX
- THE BISHOP'S CONFESSION
- CHAPTER X
- AT THE MYSTERY TREE
- [Illustration: Saunders looked long and earnestly at his face. "He's the man!" he announced.]
- CHAPTER XI
- THIN ICE
- CHAPTER XII
- HIS EXCELLENCY SUGGESTS
- CHAPTER XIII
- THE ABDUCTION
- CHAPTER XIV
- THE INEXPLICABLE
- [Illustration: "God rest her," Father Murray said after what seemed an age to Mark; "it is not Ruth!"]
- CHAPTER XV
- "I AM NOT THE DUCHESS!"
- CHAPTER XVI
- HIS EXCELLENCY IS WORRIED
- CHAPTER XVII
- THE OPEN DOOR
- CHAPTER XVIII
- SAUNDERS SCORES
- CHAPTER XIX
- CAPITULATION
- CHAPTER XX
- THE "DUCHESS" ABDICATES
- CHAPTER XXI
- THE BECKONING HAND
- CHAPTER XXII
- RUTH'S CONFESSION
- CHAPTER XXIII
- CHARRED WOOD
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