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       THE BURNING SPEAR

       I

       THE HERO

       II

       THE VALET

       III

       MR. LAVENDER ADDRESSES A CROWD OF HUNS

       IV

       INTO THE DANGERS OF A PUBLIC LIFE

       V

       IS CONVICTED OF A NEW DISEASE

       VI

       MAKES A MISTAKE, AND MEETS A MOON-CAT

       VII

       SEES AND EDITOR, AND FINDS A FARMER

       VIII

       STARVES SOME GERMANS

       IX

       CONVERSES WITH A CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTOR

       X

       DREAMS A DREAM AND SEES A VISION

       XI

       BREAKS UP A PEACE MEETING

       XII

       SPEEDS UP TRANSPORT, AND SEES A DOCTOR

       XIII

       ADDRESSES SOME SOLDIERS ON THEIR FUTURE

       XIV

       ENDEAVOURS TO INTERN A GERMAN

       XV.

       XVI

       FIGHTS THE FIGHT OF FAITH

       XVII

       ADDRESSES THE CLOUDS

       XVIII

       SEES TRUTH FACE TO FACE

       XIX

       IS IN PERIL OF THE STREET

       XX

       RECEIVES A REVELATION

       XXI

       AND ASCENDS TO PARADISE

THE BURNING SPEAR

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THE HERO

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      In the year —— there dwelt on Hampstead Heath a small thin gentleman of fifty-eight, gentle disposition, and independent means, whose wits had become somewhat addled from reading the writings and speeches of public men. The castle which, like every Englishman, he inhabited was embedded in lilac bushes and laburnums, and was attached to another castle, embedded, in deference to our national dislike of uniformity, in acacias and laurustinus. Our gentleman, whose name was John Lavender, had until the days of the Great War passed one of those curious existences are sometimes to be met with, in doing harm to nobody. He had been brought up to the Bar, but like most barristers had never practised, and had spent his time among animals and the wisdom of the past. At the period in which this record opens he owned a young female sheep-dog called Blink, with beautiful eyes obscured by hair; and was attended to by a thin and energetic housekeeper, in his estimation above all weakness, whose name was Marian Petty, and by her husband, his chauffeur, whose name was Joe.

      It was the ambition of our hero to be, like all public men, without fear and without reproach. He drank

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