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Chapter 2 THINGS BEYOND PRICE

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extension which opened on the side street, he had established what he had laughingly called his "Life Line," a f

iest hours of his life he had spent here ministering to the wants of his neighbours. He had come to be

or's entrance the shadows suddenly lifted. Men and women smiled and called his n

big hand with the prescription. The young lawyer watched with curious interest the quickened step with which each one left. The medicine had begun

ant had gone, Stuart

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's the

iled good

the retailer doomed? Isn't combination the new order o

ghts for the ri

ingly. "Bivens is not a man of broad culture

soda-fountain pip threatens me with ruin unless I join his gang and help him rob my neighbours. It happens that I like my neighbours. And the more I see of this city, the more thrilling its life becomes, the more wonderful its opportunities. Opportunity means one thing to me-quite another to Bivens. The world he lives in is a small one. I live in God's big world. I belong to no class. I know them all from the lonely multimillionaire on Murray Hill to his equally l

rget them," St

slaves of poverty, cruel and pitiless, who haven't enough clothes to keep warm, enough food to eat, and are utterly helpless and forsaken in illnes

r wealth for greater good if you j

heart and soul, manhood and womanhood, given in heroic service. We need leaders

de of Justice in this big business battle that's now on betwee

do you

the new steel structures of the Trust that are rising over the city, out-of-date. Won't they make drugs more economically th

be proven. I do

if you fight, it will be again

fight," was th

d my advice,"

led at his own

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u are facing a bigger questio

ave you a glimpse to-night of the worl

you a cold-blooded b

d. I am one of them!" The stalwart figure rose in simple di

's nine o'clock-and some

ically. "I'm afraid I've not be

bent clos

ll ugliness the veil of the mystery of Love! The only real things to-night for you-the throb of triumph within your heart, the hovering presence of a woman's f

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Contents

The Root of Evil
Chapter 1 A STAR BOARDER
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Chapter 2 THINGS BEYOND PRICE
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Chapter 3 A LOVERS' QUARREL
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Chapter 4 MR. BIVENS CALLS
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Chapter 5 AN ISSUE IS FORCED
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Chapter 6 THE FORGOTTEN MAN
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Chapter 7 A VISION
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Chapter 8 STRUGGLE
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Chapter 9 DESPAIR
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Chapter 10 GROPING
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Chapter 11 AN OLD PERFUME
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Chapter 12 AN INTRUDER
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Chapter 13 A STRAIGHT TIP
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Chapter 14 EVERY MAN'S SHADOW
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Chapter 15 GATHERING CLOUDS
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Chapter 16 THE STORM BREAKS
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Chapter 17 AT THE KING'S COMMAND
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Chapter 18 A RAY OF SUNLIGHT
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Chapter 19 BENEATH THE SKIN
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Chapter 20 THE DEMI-GOD
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Chapter 21 THE LAMP OF ALADDIN
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Chapter 22 TEMPTATION
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Chapter 23 THE FORBIDDEN LAND
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Chapter 24 AN AFTERMATH
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Chapter 25 CONFESSION
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Chapter 26 THE UNBIDDEN GUEST
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Chapter 27 SOME INSIDE FACTS
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Chapter 28 THE DANCE OF DEATH
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Chapter 29 THE LAST ILLUSION
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Chapter 30 THE PARTING OF THE WAYS
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Chapter 31 THE DEVIL SMILES
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Chapter 32 BESIDE BEAUTIFUL WATERS
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Chapter 33 THE TEMPTER'S VOICE
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Chapter 34 THE MOCKERY OF THE SUN
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Chapter 35 A TRUMP CARD
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Chapter 36 THROUGH PURPLE CURTAINS
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Chapter 37 THE LAND OF THE SKY
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Chapter 38 THE WHITE MESSENGER
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Chapter 39 THE EYES OF PITY
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Chapter 40 AN EPILOGUE
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