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    A Chariot of Fire
    A Chariot of Fire
    A Chariot of Fire
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    A Chariot of Fire

    By Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

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    Release dateSep 16, 2022
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      A Chariot of Fire - Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

      Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

      A Chariot of Fire

      EAN 8596547350675

      DigiCat, 2022

      Contact: DigiCat@okpublishing.info

      Table of Contents

      A CHARIOT OF FIRE

      ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      A CHARIOT OF FIRE

      I'VE GOT TO GET TO GLOUCESTER, SIR!

      A CHARIOT OF FIRE

      Table of Contents

      BY

      ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS

      Table of Contents

      ILLUSTRATED

      HARPER & BROTHERS PUBLISHERS

      NEW YORK AND LONDON

      MCMX

      Copyright, 1905, 1910, by HARPER & BROTHERS

      Published October, 1910.

      Printed in the United States of America

      ILLUSTRATIONS

      Table of Contents

      I've Got to Get to Gloucester, Sir! … Frontispiece

      The Flowers in the Front Yard were Knee-Deep in Snow

      A CHARIOT OF FIRE

      Table of Contents

      When the White Mountain express to Boston stopped at Beverly, it slowed op reluctantly, crashed off the baggage, and dashed on with the nervousness of a train that is unmercifully and unpardonably late.

      It was a September night, and the channel of home-bound summer travel was clogged and heaving.

      A middle-aged man—a plain fellow, who was one of the Beverly passengers—stood for a moment staring at the tracks. The danger-light from the rear of the onrushing train wavered before his eyes, and looked like a splash of blood that was slowly wiped out by the night. It was foggy, and the atmosphere clung like a sponge.

      No, he muttered, it's the other way. Batty's the other way.

      He turned, facing towards the branch road which carries the great current of North Shore life.

      How soon can I get to Gloucester? he demanded of one who brushed against him heavily. He who answered proved to be of the baggage staff, and was at that moment skilfully combining a frown and a whistle behind a towering truck; from this two trunks and a dress-suit case threatened to

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