Produced by Mark C. Orton, Margo Romberg and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ + + + _By GUY THORNE_ + + + + When It Was Dark + + The Story of a Great Conspiracy + + 12º. (By mail, $1.35) _Net_, $1.20 + + + + A Lost Cause + + 12º $1.50 + + + + G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS + + _New York and London_ + + + ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ WHEN IT WAS DARK When It Was Dark The Story of a Great Conspiracy By Guy Thorne G. P. Putnam's Sons New York and London The Knickerbocker Press 1906 COPYRIGHT, 1904 BY G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS Published, January, 1904 Reprinted, May, 1904; September, 1904 December, 1904; September, 1905 October, 1905; November, 1905; January, 1906 The Knickerbocker Press, New York CONTENTS BOOK I. CHAPTER PAGE I. An Incident by Way of Prologue 1 II. In the Vicar's Study 6 III. "I Think he is a Good Man" 23 IV. The Smoke Cloud at Dawn 33 V. A Lost Soul 45 VI. The Whisper 56 VII. Last Words at Walktown 69 VIII. A Dinner at the Pannier d'Or 77 IX. Inauguration 95 X. The Resurrection Sermon 107 XI. "Neither do I Condemn Thee" 116 XII. Powers of Good and Evil 126 BOOK II. I. While London was Sleeping 141 II. Avoiding the Flower Pattern on the Carpet 165 III. "I, Joseph" 178 IV. The Domestic Chaplain's Testimony 184 V. Deus, Deus Meus, Quare Dereliquisti! 194 VI. Harness the Horses; and Get up, ye Horsemen, and Stand forth with your Helmets, Furbish the Spears, and Put on the Brigandines--Jer. xlvi: 4 205 VII. The Hour of Chaos 212 VIII. The First Links 225 IX. Particular Instances, Contrasting the Old Lady and the Special Correspondent 233 X. The Triumph of Sir Robert Llwellyn 245 XI. Progress 256