- THE STAR WOMAN
THE
STAR WOMAN
BY
H. BEDFORD-JONES
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1924
Copyright, 1924,
By Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.
Printed in the U. S. A.
CONTENTS
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| Preface | v | |
| BOOK I—THE STAR OF DREAMS | ||
| page | ||
| chap. | ||
| I | The Man and the Star | 3 |
| II | He Who Accepts an Omen, Accepts Responsibility | 22 |
| III | The Importance of Forgotten Things | 42 |
| IV | One Gains Gold, Another a Friend | 66 |
| BOOK II—THE FUR PIRATE | ||
| I | Even in a Wilderness, One Cannot Escape | 85 |
| II | When Fog Lifts, the Road Clears | 109 |
| III | Confirming a Belief in Miracles | 129 |
| IV | Predictions and Events Are Sometimes Reconciled | 150 |
| V | It Is Only by Crooked Lanes That One Gains the Highway | 165 |
| BOOK III—THE STAR GOES, THE WOMAN REMAINS | ||
| I | It Does Not Pay To Be Merciful | 173 |
| II | A Knife Does Different Things in Different Hands | 192 |
| III | Two Trails May Have the Same End | 208 |
| IV | He Who Denies the Incredible Denies God | 223 |
| V | Vengeance Runs a Red Road | 238 |
| VI | Some Problems Are Best Left Unsolved | 253 |
| VII | "An Archer Drew Bow at a Venture" | 265 |
| VIII | Sometimes Sunrise Can Come Too Late | 280 |
| IX | When a Star Falls, a Soul Has Passed | 290 |
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