III. DEEPENING SHADOWS

IV. MR. LINCOLN'S DREAM

V. THE OLD AND THE NEW CHURCH

VI. THE PREACHER AND THE WOMAN OF BOSTON

XV. THE NEW CITIZEN King

XVI. LEGREE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE

XVII. THE Second Reign of TERROR

XVIII. THE RED FLAG OF THE AUCTIONEER

XIX. THE RALLY OF THE CLANSMEN

XX. How CIVILISATION WAS SAVED

XXI. THE OLD AND THE NEW NEGRO

XXII. THE DANGER OF PLAYING WITH FIRE

XXIII. THE BIRTH OF A SCALAWAG

XXIV. A MODERN MIRACLE

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XXI. WHY THE PREACHER THREW HIS LIFE AWAY

XXII. THE FLESH AND THE SPIRIT

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X. ANOTHER DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE

XI. THE HEART OF A WOMAN

XVI. THE END OF A MODERN VILLAIN

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LEADING CHARACTERS OF THE STORY

Scene: The Foothills of North Carolina-Boston-New York Time: From 1865 to 1900

CHARLES GASTON...... Who dreams of a Governor's Mansion SALLIE WORTH.... .A daughter of the old-fashioned South GEN. DANIEL WORTH.

......

. Her father .Sallie's mother

MRS. WORTH..
THE REV. JOHN Durham....A preacher who threw his life away
MRS. DURHAM.. Of the Southern Army that never surrendered
TOM CAMP..
.A one-legged Confederate soldier
FLORA.
....Tom's little daughter

SIMON LEGREE..... . Ex-slave driver and Reconstruction leader
ALLAN MCLEOD..

.A scalawag

HON. EVERETT LOWELL.. ....Member of Congress from Boston

HON. PETE SAWYER....Sold seven times, got the money once GEORGE HARRIS, JR.......An educated Negro, son of Eliza

DICK.

..An unsolved riddle

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