When It Was Dark

by Guy Thorne

When It Was Dark

The Story of a Great Conspiracy

by

Guy Thorne

G. P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
The Knickerbocker Press
1904

Copyright, 1904
by
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

Published. January, 1904; Reprinted, May, 1904;

September, 1904; Decembert 1904; Septem-
ber, 1905; October, 1905; November, 1905;
January, 1906; August, 1906; November,

1906; June, 1908; October, 1909

The Knickerbocker Press, New York

CONTENTS

BOOK I.
Chapter.		Page
I.	An Incident by Way of Prologue	1
II.	In the Vicar's Study	6
III.	"I Think he Is a Good Man"	23
IV.	The Smoke Cloud at Dawn	33
V.	A Lost Soul	45
VI.	The Whisper	56
VII.	Last Words at Walktown	69
VIII.	A Dinner at the Pannier d'Or	77
IX.	Inauguration	95
X.	The Resurrection Sermon	107
XI.	"Neither do I Condemn thee"	116
XII.	Powers of Good and Evil	126
BOOK II.
I.	While London was Sleeping	141
II.	Avoiding the Flower Pattern on the Carpet	165
III.	"I, Joseph"	178
IV.	The Domestic Chaplain's Testimony	184
V.	Deus, Deus Meus, Quare Dereliquisti!	194
VI.	Harness the Horses; and Get up, ye Horsemen, and Stand forth with your Helmets, Furbish the Spears, and Put on the Brigandines.—Jer. xlvi:4	205
VII.	The Hour of Chaos	212
VIII.	The First Links	225
IX.	Particular Instances, Contrasting the Old Lady and the Special Correspondent	233
X.	The Triumph of Sir Robert Llwellyn	245
XI.	Progress	256
XII.	A Soul alone on the Sea-Shore	262
BOOK III.
I.	What it Meant to the World's Women	271
II.	Cyril Hands Redux	283
III.	All ye Inhabitants of the World, and Dwellers on the Earth, See ye, when He Lifteth up an Ensign on the Mountains.—Is. xviii:3	289
IV.	A Luncheon Party	302
V.	By the Tower of Hippicus	322
VI.	Under the Eastern Stars: towards Gerizim	342
VII.	The Last Meeting	356
VIII.	Death Coming with One Grace	364
IX.	At Walktown again	376
	Epilogue	385