{"product_id":"2940013427334","title":"THE RIGHT OF WAY","description":"CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Volume 1.\u003cbr\u003e  I.        THE WAY TO THE VERDICT\u003cbr\u003e  II.       WHAT CAME OF THE TRIAL\u003cbr\u003e  III.      AFTER FIVE YEARS\u003cbr\u003e  IV.       CHARLEY MAKES A DISCOVERY\u003cbr\u003e  V.        THE WOMAN IN HELIOTROPE\u003cbr\u003e  VI.       THE WIND AND THE SHORN LAMB\u003cbr\u003e  VII.      \"PEACE, PEACE, AND THERE IS NO PEACE!\"\u003cbr\u003e  VIII.     THE COST OF THE ORNAMENT\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Volume 2.\u003cbr\u003e  IX.       OLD DEBTS FOR NEW\u003cbr\u003e  X.        THE WAY IN AND THE WAY OUT\u003cbr\u003e  XI.       THE RAISING OF THE CURTAIN\u003cbr\u003e  XII.      THE COMING OF ROSALIE\u003cbr\u003e  XIII.     HOW CHARLEY WENT ADVENTURING, AND WHAT HE FOUND\u003cbr\u003e  XIV.      ROSALIE, CHARLEY, AND THE MAN THE WIDOW PLOMONDON JILTED\u003cbr\u003e  XV.       THE MARK IN THE PAPER\u003cbr\u003e  XVI.      MADAME DAUPHIN HAS A MISSION\u003cbr\u003e  XVII.     THE TAILOR MAKES A MIDNIGHT FORAY\u003cbr\u003e  XVIII.    THE STEALING OF THE CROSS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Volume 3.\u003cbr\u003e  XIX.      THE SIGN FROM HEAVEN\u003cbr\u003e  XX.       THE RETURN OF THE TAILOR\u003cbr\u003e  XXI.      THE CURE HAS AN INSPIRATION\u003cbr\u003e  XXII.     THE WOMAN WHO SAW\u003cbr\u003e  XXIII.    THE WOMAN WHO DID NOT TELL\u003cbr\u003e  XXIV.     THE SEIGNEUR TAKES A HAND IN THE GAME\u003cbr\u003e  XXV.      THE COLONEL TELLS HIS STORY\u003cbr\u003e  XXVI.     A SONG, A BOTTLE, AND A GHOST\u003cbr\u003e  XXVII.    OUT ON THE OLD TRAIL\u003cbr\u003e  XXVIII.   THE SEIGNEUR GIVES A WARNING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Volume 4.\u003cbr\u003e  XXIX.     THE WILD RIDE\u003cbr\u003e  XXX.      ROSALIE WARNS CHARLEY\u003cbr\u003e  XXXI.     CHARLEY STANDS AT BAY\u003cbr\u003e  XXXII.    JO PORTUGAIS TELLS A STORY\u003cbr\u003e  XXXIII.   THE EDGE OF LIFE\u003cbr\u003e  XXXIV.    IN AMBUSH\u003cbr\u003e  XXXV.     THE COMING OF MAXIMILIAN COUR AND ANOTHER\u003cbr\u003e  XXXVI.    BARRIERS SWEPT AWAY\u003cbr\u003e  XXXVII.   THE CHALLENGE OF PAULETTE DUBOIS\u003cbr\u003e  XXXVIII.  THE CURE AND THE SEIGNEUR VISIT THE TAILOR\u003cbr\u003e  XXXIX.    THE SCARLET WOMAN\u003cbr\u003e  XL.       AS IT WAS IN THE BEGINNING\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Volume 5.\u003cbr\u003e  XLI.      IT WAS MICHAELMAS DAY\u003cbr\u003e  XLII.     A TRIAL AND A VERDICT\u003cbr\u003e  XLIII.    JO PORTUGAIS TELLS A STORY\u003cbr\u003e  XLIV.     \"WHO WAS KATHLEEN?\"\u003cbr\u003e  XLV.      SIX MONTHS GO BY\u003cbr\u003e  XLVI.     THE FORGOTTEN MAN\u003cbr\u003e  XLVII.    ONE WAS TAKEN AND THE OTHER LEFT\u003cbr\u003e  XLVIII.   \"WHERE THE TREE OF LIFE IS BLOOMING--\"\u003cbr\u003e  XLIX.     THE OPEN GATE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Volume 6.\u003cbr\u003e  L.        THE PASSION PLAY AT CHAUDIERE\u003cbr\u003e  LI.       FACE TO FACE\u003cbr\u003e  LII.      THE COMING OF BILLY\u003cbr\u003e  LIII.     THE SEIGNEUR AND THE CURE HAVE A SUSPICION\u003cbr\u003e  LIV.      M. ROSSIGNOL SLIPS THE LEASH\u003cbr\u003e  LV.       ROSALIE PLAYS A PART\u003cbr\u003e  LVI.      MRS. FLYNN SPEAKS\u003cbr\u003e  LVII.     A BURNING FIERY FURNACE\u003cbr\u003e  LVIII.    WITH HIS BACK TO THE WALL\u003cbr\u003e  LIX.      IN WHICH CHARLEY MEETS A STRANGER\u003cbr\u003e  LX.       THE HAND AT THE DOOR\u003cbr\u003e  LXI.      THE CURE SPEAKS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  EPILOGUE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eINTRODUCTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn a book called 'The House of Harper', published in this year, 1912,\u003cbr\u003ethere are two letters of mine, concerning 'The Right of Way', written\u003cbr\u003eto Henry M. Alden, editor of Harper's Magazine. To my mind those letters\u003cbr\u003eshould never have been published. They were purely personal. They were\u003cbr\u003eintended for one man's eyes only, and he was not merely an editor but a\u003cbr\u003ebeloved and admired personal friend. Only to him and to W. E. Henley, as\u003cbr\u003eeditors, could I ever have emptied out my heart and brain; and, as may\u003cbr\u003ebe seen by these two letters, one written from London and the other from\u003cbr\u003ea place near Southampton, I uncovered all my feelings, my hopes and my\u003cbr\u003eambitions concerning The Right of Way. Had I been asked permission to\u003cbr\u003epublish them I should not have granted it. I may wear my heart upon my\u003cbr\u003esleeve for my friend, but not for the universe.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe most scathing thing ever said in literature was said by Robert\u003cbr\u003eBuchanan on Dante Gabriel Rossetti's verses--\"He has wheeled his nuptial\u003cbr\u003ebed into the street.\" Looking at these letters I have a great shrinking,\u003cbr\u003efor they were meant only for the eyes of an aged man for whom I cared\u003cbr\u003eenough to let him see behind the curtain. But since they have been\u003cbr\u003eprinted, and without a \"by your leave,\" I will use one or two passages\u003cbr\u003ein them to show in what mood, under what pressure of impulse, under what\u003cbr\u003emental and, maybe, spiritual hypnotism it was written. I first planned\u003cbr\u003eit as a story of twenty-five thousand words, even as 'Valmond' was\u003cbr\u003eplanned as a story of five thousand words, and 'A Ladder of Swords' as\u003cbr\u003ea story of twenty thousand words; but I had not written three chapters\u003cbr\u003ebefore I saw what the destiny of the tale was to be. I had gone to\u003cbr\u003eQuebec to start the thing in the atmosphere where Charley Steele\u003cbr\u003ebelonged, and there it was borne in upon me that it must be a\u003cbr\u003ethree-decker novel, not a novelette. I telegraphed to Harper \u0026amp; Brothers\u003cbr\u003eto ask them whether it would suit them just as well if I made it into a\u003cbr\u003elong novel. They telegraphed their assent at once; so I went on. At that\u003cbr\u003etime Mr. F. N. Doubleday was a sort of director of Harper's firm.","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47145675063536,"sku":"2940013427334","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940013427334_p0.jpg?v=1763580804","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940013427334","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}