Produced by Darleen Dove, Katherine Ward and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.) PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE [Illustration: "HE REPEATED ALL THE BLESSED WORDS." (_See p. 230._)] PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE By Amelia E. Barr New York The Century Co. 1897 Copyright, 1896, 1897, by The Century Co. The De Vinne Press. CONTENTS BOOK FIRST--LIOT BORSON PAGE I. The Weaving of Doom 3 II. Jealousy Cruel as the Grave 23 III. A Sentence for Life 44 IV. The Door Wide Open 62 BOOK SECOND--DAVID BORSON V. A New Life 85 VI. Kindred--the Quick and the Dead 107 VII. So Far and No Farther 127 VIII. The Justification of Death 144 IX. A Sacrifice Accepted 169 X. In the Fourth Watch 192 XI. The Lowest Hell 210 XII. "At Last it is Peace" 220 ILLUSTRATIONS "He Repeated all the Blessed Words" _Frontispiece_ A Lerwick Man 33 "The Waters of the Great Deep" 55 "'I Want to Find my Father's People'" 91 Nanna and Vala 103 "But she Held her Peace" 133 At the Kirk 137 Peat-gatherers 161 Groat 193 On the Way to Nanna's Cottage 223 "Went in and out among his Mates" 237 PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE Book First LIOT BORSON BOOK FIRST CONTENTS PAGE I. The Weaving of Doom 3 II. Jealousy Cruel as the Grave 23 III. A Sentence for Life 44 IV. The Door Wide Open 62 PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE I THE WEAVING OF DOOM