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The Castle of the Shadows (Classic Reprint)
The Castle of the Shadows - Classic Reprint Author:C. N. Williamson The Castle of the Shadows CHAPTER I WHERE DREAMLAND BEGAN ACCORDING to the calendar it was winter; ft but between Mentone and the frontier town of Ventimiglia, on the white road inlaid like a strip of ivory on dark rocks above the sapphire of the Mediterranean, it "ras fierce summer in the sunshine. A girl riding between two men, reined in her c... more »hestnut mare at a cross-road which led into the jade-green twilight of an olive grove. The men pulled up their horses also, and all three came to a sudden halt at a bridge Hung across a swift but shallow river, whose stony bed cleft the valley. The afternoon sunshine poured down upon them, burnishing the coils of the girl's hair to gold, and giving a dazzling brilliancy to a complexion which for twenty years to come need s
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; CHAPl'EB PAGE; I Where Dreamland Began ? ? 8; ll The Story Told by Tw'o ? ? 81; ill A Mystery and a Bargain ? 61; IV The Closed Door ? 84; v The Lady on the Verandah 108; VI The End of the World ? ? 184; VII The Gates Open ? 158; VIll Number 1280 ? ? ? 178; IX A Cry Across the "r ater ? ? 201; X "Once on Board the Lugger" ? 224; XI Virginia's Great lVloment ? ? 248; XII Stand and Deliver! ? ? ? 270; XIII The Game of Bluff ? ? ? 294
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