Produced by Charles Bowen, from page scans provided by the Web Archive Transcriber's Note: 1. Page scan source: http://www.archive.org/details/throughnighttol00veregoog 2. The diphthong oe is represented by [oe]. Through Night To Light A NOVEL BY FRIEDRICH SPIELHAGEN FROM THE GERMAN BY PROF. SCHELE DE VERE _Author's Edition_ "Ex fumo dare lucem cogitat." Horace _REVISED EDITION_ NEW YORK HENRY HOLT AND COMPANY 1878 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1869, by LEYPOLDT & HOLT, In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States for the Southern District of New York. STEREOTYPED BY DENNIS BRO'S & THORNE, AUBURN N. Y. Through Night to Light. Part First. CHAPTER I. The sun hung glaring red near the horizon. In the valleys of the mountain ranges dark-blue shadows were gathering, while high on the forest-crowned tops the warm evening light was still aglow. The trees were gorgeous in their gay autumn livery, but in this part of the mountain dark forests of sombre evergreens covered the narrow ravines up and down, and all the swelling heights. On the turnpike which led in manifold windings towards the main ridge of the mountains, and was lined on both sides with unbroken rows of dwarf fruit-trees, an old-fashioned carriage was slowly making its way. It was one of those broad but clumsy vehicles, drawn by two raw-boned, broken-kneed horses, and carefully provided with a huge drag-chain, which are hired in the cities for a few days' excursion into the mountains. The horses lagged, with drooping heads, heavily in their harness, and labored painfully step by step up the hill, for the road was steep and the carriage heavy. The driver encouraged them from time to time with a friendly Gee, bay! up, sorrel! as he walked slowly by their side, and the two gentlemen who had employed him for some days had gotten out at the foot of the mountain and were leisurely following at some distance behind him.