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To begin a story of this kind at the beginning is hard; for when the beginning may have been, no man knows. Perhaps it was a hundred years ago - perhaps a thousand - perhaps ten thousand; and it may well be, yet longer ago, even, than that. Yet it can be told that John Schuyler came from a long line of clean-bodied, clean-souled, clear-eyed, clear-headed ancestors; and from these he had inherited cleanness of body and of soul, clearness of eye and of head.

A Fool There Was Chapter 1 No.1

I. Of Certain People

II. Of Certain Other People

III. Two Boys and a Girl

IV. The Child and the Stranger

V. As Time Passes

VI. An Accident

VII. An Incident

VIII. Of Certain Goings

IX. Of Certain Other Goings

X. Two Boys and a Doctor

XI. A Proposal

XII. A Foreign Mission

XIII. The Going

XIV. Parmalee-and The Woman

XV. A Warning

XVI. The Beginning

XVII. In The Night

XVIII. White Roses

XIX. Shadows

XX. A Fairy Story

XXI. A Letter

XXII. Again The Fairy Story

XXIII. Aid

XXIV. The Rescue

XXV. The Return

XXVI. The Red Rose

XXVII. The Red Road

XXVIII. The Battle

XXIX. Defeat

XXX. And Its Consequences

XXXI. That Which Men Said

XXXII. In the Garden

XXXIII. Temptation

XXXIV. The Shroud of a Soul

XXXV. The Thing that was a Man

XXXVI. Again the Battle

XXXVII. The Pity of It All

ILLUSTRATIONS.

"Beautiful, gloriously beautiful in her strange, weird dark beauty"

"Bye little sweetheart"

"I do forgive-forgive and understand"

"Can't you find in that dead thing you call a heart just one shred of pity?"

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“To begin a story of this kind at the beginning is hard; for when the beginning may have been, no man knows. Perhaps it was a hundred years ago - perhaps a thousand - perhaps ten thousand; and it may well be, yet longer ago, even, than that. Yet it can be told that John Schuyler came from a long line of clean-bodied, clean-souled, clear-eyed, clear-headed ancestors; and from these he had inherited cleanness of body and of soul, clearness of eye and of head.”
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Chapter 2 OF CERTAIN PEOPLE.

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Chapter 3 OF CERTAIN OTHER PEOPLE.

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Chapter 4 TWO BOYS AND A GIRL.

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Chapter 5 THE CHILD AND THE STRANGER.

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Chapter 6 AS TIME PASSES.

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Chapter 7 AN ACCIDENT.

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Chapter 8 AN INCIDENT.

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Chapter 9 OF CERTAIN GOINGS.

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Chapter 10 TWO BOYS AND A DOCTOR.

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Chapter 11 A PROPOSAL.

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Chapter 12 A FOREIGN MISSION

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Chapter 13 THE GOING.

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Chapter 14 YOUNG PARMALEE-AND THE WOMAN.

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Chapter 15 A WARNING.

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Chapter 16 THE BEGINNING.

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Chapter 17 WHITE ROSES.

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Chapter 18 SHADOWS.

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Chapter 19 A FAIRY STORY.

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Chapter 20 ONE.

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Chapter 21 TWO.

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Chapter 22 THREE.

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Chapter 23 FOUR.

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Chapter 24 FIVE.

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Chapter 25 SIX.

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Chapter 26 SEVEN.

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Chapter 27 EIGHT.

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Chapter 28 NINE.

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Chapter 29 AND ITS CONSEQUENCES.

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Chapter 30 ONE. 30

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Chapter 31 TWO. 31

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Chapter 32 THREE. 32

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Chapter 33 FOUR. 33

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Chapter 34 FIVE. 34

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Chapter 35 SIX. 35

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Chapter 36 SEVEN. 36

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