{"product_id":"2940013081277","title":"THE LAST STROKE","description":"CONTENTS.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e                              PAGE\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003eSOMETHING WRONG                  1\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER II.\u003cbr\u003eFOUND                           12\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER III.\u003cbr\u003eNEMESIS                         28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IV.\u003cbr\u003eFERRARS                         39\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER V.\u003cbr\u003eIN CONSULTATION                 52\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VI.\u003cbr\u003e\"WHICH?\"                        64\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VII.\u003cbr\u003eRENUNCIATION                    75\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER VIII.\u003cbr\u003eTRICKERY                        90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER IX.\u003cbr\u003eA LETTER                       101\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER X.\u003cbr\u003eTHIS HELPS ME                  117\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XI.\u003cbr\u003eDETAILS                        127\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XII.\u003cbr\u003e\"FERRISS-GRANT\"                135\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIII.\u003cbr\u003eTHE \"LAKE COUNTY HERALD\"       148\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIV.\u003cbr\u003eA GHOST                        157\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XV.\u003cbr\u003eREBELLION                      175\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVI.\u003cbr\u003e\"OUT OF REACH\"                 185\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVII.\u003cbr\u003eRUTH GLIDDEN                   196\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XVIII.\u003cbr\u003eSUDDEN FLITTINGS               208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XIX.\u003cbr\u003eTHROUGH THE MAIL               221\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XX.\u003cbr\u003eA WOMAN'S HEART                237\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXI.\u003cbr\u003e\"QUARRELSOME HARRY\"            250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXII.\u003cbr\u003eIN NUMBER NINE                 269\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXIII.\u003cbr\u003eTWO INTERVIEWS                 279\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXIV.\u003cbr\u003eMRS. GASTON LATHAM             292\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER XXV.\u003cbr\u003eTHE LAST STROKE                301\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTHE LAST STROKE.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCHAPTER I.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSOMETHING WRONG.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt was a May morning in Glenville. Pretty, picturesque Glenville, low\u003cbr\u003elying by the lake shore, with the waters of the lake surging to meet it,\u003cbr\u003eor coyly receding from it, on the one side, and the green-clad hills\u003cbr\u003erising gradually and gently on the other, ending in a belt of trees at\u003cbr\u003ethe very horizon's edge.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThere is little movement in the quiet streets of the town at half-past\u003cbr\u003eeight o'clock in the morning, save for the youngsters who, walking,\u003cbr\u003erunning, leaping, sauntering or waiting idly, one for another, are, or\u003cbr\u003eshould be, on their way to the school-house which stands upon the very\u003cbr\u003esouthernmost outskirts of the town, and a little way up the hilly\u003cbr\u003eslope, at a reasonably safe remove from the willow-fringed lake shore.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Glenville school-house was one of the earliest public buildings\u003cbr\u003eerected in the village, and it had been \"located\" in what was\u003cbr\u003econfidently expected to be the centre of the place. But the new and\u003cbr\u003elate-coming impetus, which had changed the hamlet of half a hundred\u003cbr\u003edwellings to one of twenty times that number, and made of it a quiet and\u003cbr\u003enot too fashionable little summer resort, had carried the business of\u003cbr\u003ethe place northward, and its residences still farther north, thus\u003cbr\u003eleaving this seat of learning aloof from, and quite above the newer\u003cbr\u003etown, in isolated and lofty dignity, surrounded by trees; in the\u003cbr\u003eoutskirts, in fact, of a second belt of wood, which girdled the lake\u003cbr\u003eshore, even as the further and loftier fringe of timber outlined the\u003cbr\u003ehilltops at the edge of the eastern horizon and far away.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47069821993200,"sku":"2940013081277","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013081277_p0.jpg?v=1763576506","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013081277","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}