JOSEPH HOCKING'S GREAT WAR STORIES ALL FOR A SCRAP OF PAPER THE

CONTENTS CHAP.

FOREWORD

CHAPTER I THE MAN WITHOUT A PAST

CHAPTER II SIR ROGER GRANVILLE'S SUGGESTION

CHAPTER III THE STRANGE BEHAVIOUR OF GEORGE ST. MABYN

CHAPTER IV I MEET CAPTAIN SPRINGFIELD

CHAPTER V HOW A MAN WORKED A MIRACLE

CHAPTER VI PAUL EDGECUMBE'S MEMORY

CHAPTER VII A CAUSE OF FAILURE

CHAPTER VIII I BECOME AN EAVESDROPPER

CHAPTER IX EDGECUMBE IS MISSING

CHAPTER X THE STRUGGLE IN THE TRENCHES

CHAPTER XI EDGECUMBE'S STORY

CHAPTER XII THE STRUGGLE ON THE SOMME

CHAPTER XIII EDGECUMBE'S MADNESS

CHAPTER XIV EDGECUMBE'S LOGIC

CHAPTER XV DEVONSHIRE

CHAPTER XVI LORNA BOLIVICK'S HOME

CHAPTER XVII A NEW DEVELOPMENT

CHAPTER XVIII A TRAGIC HAPPENING

CHAPTER XIX A MYSTERIOUS ILLNESS

CHAPTER XX A STRANGE NIGHT

CHAPTER XXI

CHAPTER XXII EDGECUMBE'S RESOLVE

CHAPTER XXIII SPRINGFIELD'S PROGRESS

CHAPTER XXIV A STRANGE LOVE-MAKING

CHAPTER XXV 'WHY IS VICTORY DELAYED?

CHAPTER XXVI 'WHERE DOES GOD COME IN?'

CHAPTER XXVII SEEING LONDON

CHAPTER XXVIII SUNSHINE AND SHADOW

CHAPTER XXIX CROSS CURRENTS

CHAPTER XXX THE MARCH OF EVENTS

CHAPTER XXXI EDGECUMBE'S RETURN

CHAPTER XXXII THE GREAT MEETING

CHAPTER XXXIII THE LIFTED CURTAIN

CHAPTER XXXIV MEMORY

CHAPTER XXXV AFTERWARDS

CHAPTER XXXVI EDGECUMBE'S RESOLUTION

CHAPTER XXXVII MAURICE ST. MABYN

CHAPTER XXXVIII A BOMBSHELL

CHAPTER XXXIX SPRINGFIELD AT BAY

CHAPTER XL MAURICE ST. MABYN'S GENEROSITY

CHAPTER XLI THE NEW HOPE

CHAPTER XLII AN UNFINISHED STORY

Title: "The Pomp of Yesterday"

Author: Joseph Hocking

Language: English

E-text prepared by Al Haines

'THE POMP OF YESTERDAY'

by

JOSEPH HOCKING

Author of 'All for a Scrap of Paper,' 'Dearer than Life,'
  'The Curtain of Fire,' etc.

  "Far famed our Navies melt away,
  On dune and headland sinks the fire,
  Lo, all the pomp of yesterday
  Is one with Nineveh and Tyre.
    God of the Nations, spare us yet!
    Lest we forget, lest we forget."
            RUDYARD KIPLING.

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