The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Quickening, by Francis Lynde This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Quickening Author: Francis Lynde Illustrator: E. M. Ashe Release Date: December 19, 2005 [EBook #17357] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE QUICKENING *** Produced by Paul Ereaut, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Illustration: Tom was fronting the firebrand Dabney like a man. THE QUICKENING By FRANCIS LYNDE Author of The Grafters, The Master of Appleby, etc., etc. WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY E.M. ASHE INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS Copyright 190-

6 Francis Lynde March PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N.Y. To My Mother CHAPTER PAGE I Bethesda 1 II The Cedars of Lebanon 11 III Of the Fathers Upon the Children 21 IV The Newer Exodus 25 V The Dabneys of Deer Trace 32 VI Blue Blood and Red 44 VII The Prayer of the Righteous 57 VIII The Backslider 65 IX The Race to the Swift 75 X The Shadow of the Rock 90 XI The Trumpet-Call 99 XII The Iron in the Forge Fire 107 XIII A Sister of Charity 116 XIV On Jordan's Bank 124-

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