The Star Woman

by H. Bedford-Jones

 

THE STAR WOMAN

 

 

 

 

THE
STAR WOMAN

 

BY
H. BEDFORD-JONES

 

 

NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1924

 

Copyright, 1924,
By Dodd, Mead and Company, Inc.

 

Printed in the U. S. A.

 

CONTENTS

		page
	Preface	v
	BOOK I—THE STAR OF DREAMS
		page
chap.
I	The Man and the Star	3
II	He Who Accepts an Omen, Accepts Responsibility	22
III	The Importance of Forgotten Things	42
IV	One Gains Gold, Another a Friend	66
	BOOK II—THE FUR PIRATE
I	Even in a Wilderness, One Cannot Escape	85
II	When Fog Lifts, the Road Clears	109
III	Confirming a Belief in Miracles	129
IV	Predictions and Events Are Sometimes Reconciled	150
V	It Is Only by Crooked Lanes That One Gains the Highway	165
	BOOK III—THE STAR GOES, THE WOMAN REMAINS
I	It Does Not Pay To Be Merciful	173
II	A Knife Does Different Things in Different Hands	192
III	Two Trails May Have the Same End	208
IV	He Who Denies the Incredible Denies God	223
V	Vengeance Runs a Red Road	238
VI	Some Problems Are Best Left Unsolved	253
VII	"An Archer Drew Bow at a Venture"	265
VIII	Sometimes Sunrise Can Come Too Late	280
IX	When a Star Falls, a Soul Has Passed	290