THE NIGHT OF TEMPTATION
THE NIGHT OF
TEMPTATION
BY
VICTORIA CROSS
Author of
"Life's Shop Window," "Six Women,"
etc., etc.
NEW YORK
THE MACAULAY COMPANY
Copyright, 1912, by
VIVIAN CORY GRIFFEN
Copyright, 1914, by
VIVIAN CORY GRIFFEN
CONTENTS.
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I. | Home | 11 |
| II. | In the Ways of Delight | 43 |
| III. | The Gift | 77 |
| IV. | Out of the Stagnant Harbour | 124 |
| V. | Clear Waters | 145 |
| VI. | Paradise or ——? | 172 |
| VII. | With the Great River | 196 |
| VIII. | The Lions of the Desert | 223 |
| IX. | In the Dark Watches | 249 |
| X. | The Reaction | 285 |
| XI. | Vae Victis | 296 |
| XII. | Dawn | 305 |
THE
NIGHT OF
TEMPTATION
THE NIGHT OF TEMPTATION
CHAPTER I HOME
She lay in a quiet corner of the Rectory Garden, looking up at themajestic white clouds, that sailed across the blue of the summersky, like Viking ships under full sail, speeding along over the deepblue of a limitless ocean. How glorious they were! How wonderful tocontemplate these summer nimbi, in their immaculate, fleecy whiteness,in their sh