The Child of the Moat
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As for the grown-ups the story is not written for grown-ups, and if they want to know why it begins with such a gruesome first chapter, let them ask the children. Children like the horrors first and the end all bright. Many grown-ups like the tragedy at the end. But perhaps the children are right and the grown-ups are standing on their heads. Besides they can skip the first chapter; it is only a prologue.

The Child of the Moat PREFACE

On the analogy of the famous apple,-"there ain't going to be no" preface, "not nohow." Children do not read prefaces, so anything of a prefatory nature that might interest them is put at the beginning of chapter one.

As for the grown-ups the story is not written for grown-ups, and if they want to know why it begins with such a gruesome first chapter, let them ask the children. Children like the horrors first and the end all bright. Many grown-ups like the tragedy at the end. But perhaps the children are right and the grown-ups are standing on their heads. Besides they can skip the first chapter; it is only a prologue.


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“As for the grown-ups the story is not written for grown-ups, and if they want to know why it begins with such a gruesome first chapter, let them ask the children. Children like the horrors first and the end all bright. Many grown-ups like the tragedy at the end. But perhaps the children are right and the grown-ups are standing on their heads. Besides they can skip the first chapter; it is only a prologue.”
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PREFACE

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CHAPTER I HATE

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CHAPTER II SECRETS

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CHAPTER III HATE AND LOVE

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CHAPTER IV THE PRISONER

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CHAPTER V THE THIEF

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CHAPTER VI BITTERNESS

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CHAPTER VII DEATH

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CHAPTER VIII REMORSE

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CHAPTER IX THE JUDGMENT

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CHAPTER X THE PACKMAN'S VISIT

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CHAPTER XI SWORDS AND QUESTIONINGS

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CHAPTER XII "MOLL O' THE GRAVES"

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CHAPTER XIII COMING EVENTS CAST SHADOWS

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CHAPTER XIV GOOD-BYE

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CHAPTER XV THE TERROR OF THE MIST

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CHAPTER XVI A DESPERATE TASK

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CHAPTER XVII CARLISLE

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CHAPTER XVIII A DIPLOMATIC VICTORY

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CHAPTER XIX THE LOSS

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CHAPTER XX PERSECUTION

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CHAPTER XXI TORTURE

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CHAPTER XXII TO THE RESCUE

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CHAPTER XXIII A DUEL TO THE DEATH

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CHAPTER XXIV A RIDE IN VAIN

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CHAPTER XXV AMAZING DISCOVERIES

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CHAPTER XXVI THE BATTLE OF LIDDISDALE

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CHAPTER XXVII THE BIRTHDAY PARTY

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CHAPTER XXVIII THE LAST ADVENTURE

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CHAPTER XXIX A TALE OF A TUB

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CHAPTER XXX THE GREAT IRON CHEST

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