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Synopsis
“The story of the love of a young English aristocrat for the niece of an American multimillionaire. The opening chapters are in Scotland, where the American with his niece is present on his yacht. The duke follows their return to America, where the story continues upon the estate of the millionaire in Oregon. An insurrection of the large force of Japanese laborers on the estate gives rise to some thrilling situations.” -The Bookseller
“A fantastic tale with a thread of the occult running through it. The heroine is an American girl of transcendent beauty, with an uncle of such wealth that he can say: ‘I have drawn the resources of a nation under me; I have got it in my hand; it obeys me; but I respect its illusions; I do not offend its eye; I do not wear gewgaws and tinsel, and I have hidden my Versailles in a forest. Nations see no further than the form of things. A republic is as easy to govern as an empire if one only keeps his gilded chair in the garret.’ Other leading characters are a duke, as noble of nature as of lineage, and a marchesa. The man of millions has peopled his vast Oregon estate with Japanese only. He has staged his sovereignty in the wilderness. Here is his ‘gilded chair.’ Here is he housed and served like an Oriental despot, and what comes of this is the vital part of the book. It is the author’s creed that organic race antipathy runs in the blood, and that any real alliance of East and West is a thing impossible....A well-told tale of beauty and wealth and peril and love.” -The American Stationer
CONTENTS
THE GILDED CHAIR
CHAPTER I—THE TRAVELER
CHAPTER II—THE HOUSE OF THE FIRST MEN
CHAPTER III—THE HERMIT'S CRUST
CHAPTER IV—THE MAIDEN OF THE WATERS
CHAPTER V—THE GATHERING
CHAPTER VI—THE MENACE
CHAPTER VII—THE COUNSEL OF WISDOM
CHAPTER VIII—THE WOMAN ON THE WALL
CHAPTER IX—THE USURPER
CHAPTER X—THE RED BENCH
CHAPTER XI—THE CHART OF THE TREASURE
CHAPTER XII—THE SERVANTS OF YAHVEH
CHAPTER XIII—THE JOURNEYING
CHAPTER XIV—THE PLACE OF PROPHECY
CHAPTER XV—THE VULNERABLE SPOT
CHAPTER XVI—THE LESSON IN MAGIC
CHAPTER XVII—THE STAIR OF VISIONS
CHAPTER XVIII—THE SIGN BY THE WAY
CHAPTER XIX—THE CHAMBER OF LIGHT
CHAPTER XX—THE MOVING SHADOW
CHAPTER XXI—THE IMPOTENT SPELL
CHAPTER XXII—THE IRON POT
CHAPTER XIII—THE GREAT PERIL
CHAPTER XXIV—THE TASTE OF DEATH
CHAPTER XXV—THE WANDERING
CHAPTER XXVI—THE CITY OF DREAMS
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About the Author
Melville Davisson Post (1869 1930) was a West Virginia author and attorney best known for his stories featuring Uncle Abner, an amateur detective and backwoodsman who solves mysteries and hands out justice in the years before the Civil War. Post s other iconic creation is the amoral lawyer Randolph Mason, whose exploits on behalf of his criminal clients helped to establish the legal thriller genre.
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- PublisherCreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
- Publication date2016
- ISBN 10 1533265399
- ISBN 13 9781533265395
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages234
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