Chapters
26 totalI SHOWS MRS. THESIGER IN HER HOME - II INTRODUCES ONE OF STROOD'S SUCCESSORS - III THE FINDING OF JOHN LATTERY - IV MR. JARVICE - V MICHEL REVAILLOUD EXPOUNDS HIS PHILOSOPHY - VI THE PAVILLON DE LOGNAN - VII THE AIGUILLE D'ARGENTIÈRE - VIII SYLVIA PARTS FROM HER MOTHER - IX SYLVIA MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF HER FATHER - X A LITTLE ROUND GAME OF CARDS - XI SYLVIA'S FATHER MAKES A MISTAKE - XII THE HOUSE OF THE RUNNING WATER - XIII CHAYNE RETURNS - XIV AN OLD PASSION BETRAYS A NEW SECRET - XV KENYON'S JOHN LATTERY - XVI AS BETWEEN GENTLEMEN - XVII SYLVIA TELLS MORE THAN SHE KNOWS - XVIII BOTH SIDES OF THE QUESTION - XIX THE SHADOW IN THE ROOM - XX ON THE DOWN - XXI CHAYNE COMES TO CONCLUSIONS - XXII REVAILLOUD REVISITED - XXIII MICHEL REVAILLOUD'S FÜHRBUCH - XXIV THE BRENVA RIDGE - XXV A NIGHT ON AN ICE-SLOPE - XXVI RUNNING WATER - CHAPTER I - SHOWS MRS. THESIGER IN HER HOME
CHAPTER II - INTRODUCES ONE OF STROOD'S SUCCESSORS
CHAPTER III - THE FINDING OF JOHN LATTERY
CHAPTER IV - MR. JARVICE
CHAPTER V - MICHEL REVAILLOUD EXPOUNDS HIS PHILOSOPHY
CHAPTER VI - THE PAVILLON DE LOGNAN
CHAPTER VII - THE AIGUILLE D'ARGENTIÈRE
CHAPTER VIII - SYLVIA PARTS FROM HER MOTHER
CHAPTER IX - SYLVIA MAKES THE ACQUAINTANCE OF HER FATHER
CHAPTER X - A LITTLE ROUND GAME OF CARDS
Description
A continental night train becomes a moving sanctuary for Mrs. Thesiger, who has spent more years in its cramped sleeping‑car than in any hotel or home. The familiar clatter of wheels and the muted glow of dawn frame a moment of quiet tension when she awakens to the soft, secretive rustle of her daughter beside her. The train’s rhythm mirrors the mother’s restless life, a series of fleeting stops that never quite allow her to settle.
Sylvia, seventeen yet cloaked in a child’s innocence, watches the world through a glass pane that turns her face into a timeless photograph. Her quiet defiance and reverie hint at a deeper world she keeps hidden, one that both isolates her and draws her mother’s envy. As the carriage rolls toward an uncertain horizon, the pair stand on the brink of a mystery that will pull them far beyond the familiar rails of their itinerant existence.
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en
Duration
~8 hours (466K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Release date
2004-07-12
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
About the author
A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
1865–1948
Best remembered for The Four Feathers, he wrote popular adventure stories and early detective novels that helped shape crime fiction. His career also took some surprising turns, including time on the stage and in Parliament.
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