A Day of Fate

By Roe, Edward Payson

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Title:	A Day of Fate
Author:	Roe, Edward Payson
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Blackmask Online Collection
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Publisher:	Blackmask Online


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Description
Excerpt: BOOK FIRST Chapter 1. AIMLESS STEPS. ?Another month?s work will knock Morton into ?pi,? ?was a remark that caught my ear as I fumed from the composing?room back to my private office. I had just irately blamed a printer for a blunder of my own, and the words I overheard reminded me of the unpleasant truth that I had recently made a great many senseless blunders, over which I chafed in merciless self?condemnation. For weeks and months my mind had been tense under the strain of increasing work and responsibility. It was my nature to become absorbed in my tasks, and, as night editor of a prominent city journal, I found a limitless field for labor. It was true I could have jogged along under the heavy burden with comparatively little wear and loss, but, impelled by both temperament and ambition, I was trying to maintain a racer?s speed. From casual employment as a reporter I had worked my way up to my present position, and the tireless activity and alertness required to win and hold such a place was seemingly degenerating into a nervous restlessness which permitted no repose of mind or rest of body. I worked when other men slept, but, instead of availing myself of the right to sleep when the world was awake, I yielded to an increasing tendency to wakefulness, and read that I might be informed on the endless variety of subjects occupying public attention. The globe was becoming a vast hunting?ground, around which my thoughts ranged almost unceasingly that I might capture something new, striking, or original for the benefit of our paper. Each day the quest had grown more eager, and as the hour for going to press approached I would even become feverish in my intense desire to send the paper out with a breezy, newsy aspect, and would be elated if, at the last moment, material was flashed in that would warrant startling head?lines, and correspondingly depressed if the weary old world had a few hours of quiet and peace. To make the paper ?go,? every faculty I possessed was in the harness.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents: A Day Of Fate, 1 -- E. P. Roe, 1 -- Preface, 2 -- BOOK FIRST, 2 -- Chapter I. AIMLESS STEPS, 2 -- Chapter II. A JUNE DAY?DREAM, 6 -- Chapter III. THE SHINING TIDE, 9 -- Chapter IV. REALITY, 14 -- Chapter V. MUTUAL DISCOVERIES, 20 -- Chapter VI. A QUAKER TEA, 26 -- Chapter VII. A FRIEND, 31 -- Chapter VIII. THE MYSTERY OF MYSTERIES, 35 -- Chapter IX. ?OLD PLOD?, 40 -- Chapter X. A BIT OF EDEN, 44 -- Chapter XI. ?MOVED?, 52 -- Chapter XII. ONE OF NATURE'S TRAGEDIES, 56 -- Chapter XIII. THE LIGHTNING AND A SUBTLER FLAME, 61 -- Chapter XIV. KINDLING A SPARK OF LIFE, 67 -- Chapter XV. MY FATE, 72 -- BOOK SECOND, 76 -- Chapter I. THE DAY AFTER, 76 -- Chapter II. ?IT WAS INEVITABLE?, 85 -- Chapter III. RETURNING CONSCIOUSNESS, 89 -- Chapter IV. IN THE DARK, 91 -- Chapter V. A FLASH OF MEMORY, 98 -- Chapter VI. WEAKNESS, 106 -- Chapter VII. OLD PLOD IDEALIZED, 111 -- Chapter VIII. AN IMPULSE, 115 -- Chapter IX. A WRETCHED FAILURE, 120 -- Chapter X. IN THE DEPTHS, 124 -- Chapter XI. POOR ACTING, 131 -- Chapter XII. THE HOPE OF A HIDDEN TREASURE, 137 -- Chapter XIII. THE OLD MEETING?HOUSE AGAIN, 141 -- Chapter XIV. LOVE TEACHING ETHICS, 145 -- Chapter XV. ?DON'T THINK OF ME?, 150 -- Chapter XVI. RICHARD, 158 -- Chapter XVIII. MRS. YOCOMB'S LETTERS, 171 -- Chapter XIX. ADAH, 176 -- Chapter XX. THANKSGIVING DAY, 180 -- Chapter XXI. RIPPLES ON DEEP WATER, 187