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In The Ancient Law, protagonist Daniel Ordway finds himself at a crossroads. After serving a prison sentence for fraud, Ordway is disowned by his family and has few prospects for a new career. Lost and alone, he turns his back on everything he knows and strikes out to make a new life for himself.
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Table of contents
- THE ANCIENT LAW
- Contents
- BOOK FIRST - THE NEW LIFE
- Chapter I - The Road
- Chapter II - The Night
- Chapter III - The Return to Tappahannock
- Chapter IV - The Dream of Daniel Smith
- Chapter V - At Tappahannock
- Chapter VI - The Pretty Daughter of the Mayor
- Chapter VII - Shows the Graces of Adversity
- Chapter VIII - "Ten Commandment Smith"
- Chapter IX - The Old and the New
- Chapter X - His Neighbour's Garden
- Chapter XI - Bullfinch's Hollow
- Chapter XII - A String of Coral
- BOOK SECOND - THE DAY OF RECKONING
- Chapter I - In Which a Stranger Appears
- Chapter II - Ordway Compromises with the Past
- Chapter III - A Change of Lodging
- Chapter IV - Shows that a Laugh Does Not Heal a Heartache
- Chapter V - Treats of a Great Passion in a Simple Soul
- Chapter VI - In Which Baxter Plots
- Chapter VII - Shows that Politeness, Like Charity, is an Elastic Mantle
- Chapter VIII - The Turn of the Wheel
- Chapter IX - At the Cross-Roads
- Chapter X - Between Man and Man
- Chapter XI - Between Man and Woman
- BOOK THIRD - THE LARGER PRISON
- Chapter I - The Return to Life
- Chapter II - His Own Place
- Chapter III - The Outward Pattern
- Chapter IV - The Letter and the Spirit
- Chapter V - The Will of Alice
- Chapter VI - The Iron Bars
- Chapter VII - The Vision and the Fact
- Chapter VIII - The Weakness in Strength
- BOOK FOURTH - LIBERATION
- Chapter I - The Inward Light
- Chapter II - At Tappahannock Again
- Chapter III - Alice's Marriage
- Chapter IV - The Power of the Blood
- Chapter V - The House of Dreams
- Chapter VI - The Ultimate Choice
- Chapter VII - Flight
- Chapter VIII - The End of the Road
- Chapter IX - The Light Beyond
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