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Playing with Fire

by James Grant

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  1. 1Chapter I — Merlwood
  2. 2Chapter II — Hester Maule
  3. 3Chapter III — Kashgate — A Retrospect
  4. 4Chapter IV — Playing With Fire
  5. 5Chapter V — The Cousins
  6. 6Chapter VI — Annot Drummond
  7. 7Chapter VII — ‘Is She Not Passing Fair?’
  8. 8Chapter VIII — ‘It Was No Dream’
  9. 9Chapter IX — The Old Love and the New
  10. 10Chapter X — Roland’s Home-Coming
  11. 11Chapter XI — A Cold Reception
  12. 12Chapter XII — Maude
  13. 13Chapter XIII — Roland’s Vexation
  14. 14Chapter XIV — Maude’s Secret
  15. 15Chapter XV — Mr. Hawkey Sharpe Seeks Counsel
  16. 16Chapter XVI — ‘Fool’s Paradise’
  17. 17Chapter XVII — At Earlshaugh
  18. 18Chapter XVIII — ‘My Love She’s but a Lassie Yet’
  19. 19Chapter XIX — Hester Receives a Proposal
  20. 20Chapter XX — Mr. Sharpe Makes a Mistake
  21. 21Chapter XXI — Malcolm Skene
  22. 22Chapter XXII — A Fatal Shot
  23. 23Chapter XXIII — The City of the Caliphs — October in the Land of th…
  24. 24Chapter XXIV — Jack Elliot’s Peril
  25. 25Chapter XXV — The Will
  26. 26Chapter XXVI — Moloch
  27. 27Chapter XXVII — Annot’s Misgivings
  28. 28Chapter XXVIII — The First of October
  29. 29Chapter XXIX — Alarm and Anxiety
  30. 30Chapter XXX — The Kelpie’s Cleugh
  31. 31Chapter XXXI — ‘All Over Now!’
  32. 32Chapter XXXII — Pelion on Ossa
  33. 33Chapter XXXIII — A Tangled Skein
  34. 34Chapter XXXIV — The Presentiment
  35. 35Chapter XXXV — Lost in the Desert
  36. 36Chapter XXXVI — Alone!
  37. 37Chapter XXXVII — The First Quarrel
  38. 38Chapter XXXVIII — The Crisis
  39. 39Chapter XXXIX — Turning the Tables
  40. 40Chapter XL — The New Position
  41. 41Chapter XLI — The Captive
  42. 42Chapter XLII — The Zereba of Sheikh Moussa
  43. 43Chapter XLIII — A Marriage
  44. 44Chapter XLIV — The Troopship
  45. 45Chapter XLV — The Death Wrestle
  46. 46Chapter XLVI — Maude’s Visitor
  47. 47Chapter XLVII — The Result
  48. 48Chapter XLVIII — ‘Infirm of Purpose!’
  49. 49Chapter XLIX — Christmas Day in Camp at Korti
  50. 50Chapter L — The Start for Khartoum
  51. 51Chapter LI — The March in the Desert
  52. 52Chapter LII — The Presentiment Fulfilled
  53. 53Chapter LIII — A Homeward Glance
  54. 54Chapter LIV — The Long-Suspended Sword
  55. 55Chapter LV — With General Earle’s Column
  56. 56Chapter LVI — The Battle of Kirbekan
  57. 57Chapter LVII — The Sick Convoy
  58. 58Chapter LVIII — In the Shoubrah Gardens
  59. 59Chapter LIX — Conclusion

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