NOVELS SHORT STORIES
POETRY CHILDREN'S BOOKS


The Right of Way
by Gilbert Parker
— 1901 —

Table of Contents

    INTRODUCTION
    NOTE
  1. THE WAY TO THE VERDICT
  2. WHAT CAME OF THE TRIAL
  3. AFTER FIVE YEARS
  4. CHARLEY MAKES A DISCOVERY
  5. THE WOMAN IN HELIOTROPE
  6. THE WIND AND THE SHORN LAMB
  7. "PEACE, PEACE, AND THERE IS NO PEACE"
  8. THE COST OF THE ORNAMENT
  9. OLD DEBTS FOR NEW
  10. THE WAY IN AND THE WAY OUT
  11. THE RAISING OF THE CURTAIN
  12. THE COMING OF ROSALIE
  13. HOW CHARLEY WENT ADVENTURING AND WHAT HE FOUND
  14. ROSALIE, CHARLEY, AND THE MAN THE WIDOW PLOMONDON JILTED
  15. THE MARK IN THE PAPER
  16. MADAME DAUPHIN HAS A MISSION
  17. THE TAILOR MAKES A MIDNIGHT FORAY
  18. THE STEALING OF THE CROSS
  19. THE SIGN FROM HEAVEN
  20. THE RETURN OF THE TAILOR
  21. THE CURE HAS AN INSPIRATION
  22. THE WOMAN WHO SAW
  23. THE WOMAN WHO DID NOT TELL
  24. THE SEIGNEUR TAKES A HAND IN THE GAME
  25. THE COLONEL TELLS HIS STORY
  26. A SONG, A BOTTLE, AND A GHOST
  27. OUT ON THE OLD TRAIL
  28. THE SEIGNEUR GIVES A WARNING
  29. THE WILD RIDE
  30. ROSALIE WARNS CHARLEY
  31. CHARLEY STANDS AT BAY
  32. JO PORTUGAIS TELLS A STORY
  33. THE EDGE OF LIFE
  34. IN AMBUSH
  35. THE COMING OF MAXIMILIAN COUR AND ANOTHER
  36. BARRIERS SWEPT AWAY
  37. THE CHALLENGE OF PAULETTE DUBOIS
  38. THE CURE AND THE SEIGNEUR VISIT THE TAILOR
  39. THE SCARLET WOMAN
  40. AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING
  41. IT WAS MICHAELMAS DAY
  42. A TRIAL AND A VERDICT
  43. JO PORTUGAIS TELLS A STORY
  44. "WHO WAS KATHLEEN?"
  45. SIX MONTHS GO BY
  46. THE FORGOTTEN MAN
  47. ONE WAS TAKEN AND THE OTHER LEFT
  48. "WHERE THE TREE OF LIFE IS BLOOMING—"
  49. THE OPEN GATE
  50. THE PASSION PLAY AT CHAUDIERE
  51. FACE TO FACE
  52. THE COMING OF BILLY
  53. THE SEIGNEUR AND THE CURE HAVE A SUSPICION
  54. M. ROSSIGNOL SLIPS THE LEASH
  55. ROSALIE PLAYS A PART
  56. MRS. FLYNN SPEAKS
  57. A BURNING FIERY FURNACE
  58. WITH HIS BACK TO THE WALL
  59. IN WHICH CHARLEY MEETS A STRANGER

  60. THE HAND AT THE DOOR

  61. THE CURE SPEAKS

    62. EPILOGUE