The BROKEN GATE

A NOVEL

BY EMERSON HOUGH

AUTHOR OF "THE MAN NEXT DOOR," "THE MAGNIFICENT ADVENTURE," "54° 40' OR FIGHT," "THE MISSISSIPPI BUBBLE," ETC.

ILLUSTRATED BY
M. LEONE BRACKER

D. APPLETON and COMPANY
NEW YORK LONDON
1917

Copyright, 1917, by Emerson Hough

Copyright, 1917, by The Pictorial Review Company

Printed in the United States of America

TO
ARTHUR T. VANCE
FAITHFUL AND KINDLY COUNSELOR

He felt her hands resting on his head as though in shelter.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I. The Homecoming of Dieudonné Lane
CHAPTER II. Aurora Lane
CHAPTER III. Two Mothers
CHAPTER IV. In Open Court
CHAPTER V. Closed Doors
CHAPTER VI. The Dividing Line
CHAPTER VII. At Midnight
CHAPTER VIII. The Extraordinary Horace Brooks
CHAPTER IX. The Other Woman Concerned
CHAPTER X. The Murder
CHAPTER XI. In the Name of the Law
CHAPTER XII. Anne Oglesby
CHAPTER XIII. "As You Believe in God!"
CHAPTER XIV. Aurora and Anne
CHAPTER XV. The Angels and Miss Julia
CHAPTER XVI. Horace Brooks, Attorney at Law
CHAPTER XVII. At Church
CHAPTER XVIII. At the County Jail
CHAPTER XIX. The Mob
CHAPTER XX. The Idiot
CHAPTER XXI. A True Bill
CHAPTER XXII. Miss Julia
CHAPTER XXIII. The State vs. Dieudonné Lane
CHAPTER XXIV. The Sackcloth of Spring Valley
CHAPTER XXV. Because She Was a Woman

By Emerson Hough

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

He felt her hands resting on his head as though in Shelter.

"Your Honor," said he, "I presume I am the defendant in this case."

"I was kissing you and saying good-by ... when Miss Julia came in——"

"Anne! What made you come?"

The BROKEN GATE

CHAPTER I

THE HOMECOMING OF DIEUDONNÉ LANE

"Eejit! My son John! Whip ary man in Jackson County! Whoop! Come along! Who'll fight old Eph Adamson?"

The populace of Spring Valley, largely assembled in the shade of the awnings which served as shelter against an ardent June sun, remained cold to the foregoing challenge. It had been