tion>Sarah Doudney
A Vanished Hand
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4064066239480
Table of Contents
"IT WAS A GOOD SPOT FOR A REVERIE."
CHAPTER I
IN A BACK ROOM
"For one shall grasp, and one resign,
One drink life's rue, and one its wine,
And God shall make the balance good."
—Whittier.
Elsie Kilner had a battle to fight, and it must be fought after her own fashion. It was the kind of battle which is fought every day and every hour; but the battlefield is always a silent place, and there is neither broken weapon nor crimson stain to tell us where the strife has been.
Elsie's battle was fought in a back room in All Saints' Street on an afternoon in March. It was not a gloomy room; although the window looked out upon walls and roofs and chimneys, she had a good clear view of the sky. Some pigeons occupied a little house outside one of the neighbouring windows, and there was a roof covered with red tiles on
