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THE END OF THE JOURNEY XXVIII   THE MAN IN THE WHEELED CHAIR XXIX   THE LONE BATTLE XXX   THE GIPSY RING XXXI   AMBUSH XXXII   THE COMING OF JOHN STARK XXXIII   THE UNDERSTUDY XXXIV   THE CRUCIBLE XXXV   SANCTUARY XXXVI   JUBILEE JIM'S JOURNEY XXXVII   THE CALL XXXVIII   THE CHALLENGE XXXIX   THE JAILBIRD XL   GENTLEMEN ALL XLI   DARK DAYS XLII   THE MENDED ROAD XLIII   THE PITFALL XLIV   THE LIGHTED FUSE XLV   THE CHASM XLVI   CRAIG STRIKES XLVII   WITH HIS BACK TO THE WALL XLVIII   THE HEART OF A WOMAN XLIX   THE GOVERNOR TAKES A HAND L   REVELATION

ILLUSTRATIONS

Her lips trembled, but she spoke in a clear
undertone, audible only to him, which faltered
the merest trifle. (Page 316) . . . Frontispiece

"I have answered you," she replied, "once and for all.
You will please consider it final"

He turned his head and saw the figure in the doorway.
"Echo!" he cried and rose to his feet

All at once the hound flung up his great head with a
low howl, then, crouching, licked the nerveless
hand that hung down

THE LONG LANE'S TURNING

CHAPTER I

THE COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENCE

The dark was falling over the court-room. A lurid ray of the setting sun gleamed redly on the dust-streaked window panes, and struggled disconsolately with the melancholy gleam of the oil lamps that an awkward attendant with creaking foot-leather had laboriously lighted in their wall-brackets. Their pale radiance gleamed on the painted faces of dead jurists that looked down from fly-specked canvases on the walls and was reflected from the mass of moving, living faces that filled the room, whose eyes gazed alternately