_ CHAPTER LX. THE HAND AT THE DOOR
       The eve of the day of the memorable funeral two belated visitors to the Passion Play arrived in the village, unknowing that it had ended, and of the tragedy which had set a whole valley mourning; unconscious that they shared in the bitter fortunes of the tailor-man, of whom men and women spoke with tears. Affected by the gloom of the place, the two visitors at once prepared for their return journey, but the manner of the tailorman's death arrested their sympathies, touched the humanity in them. The woman was much impressed.
       They asked to see the body of the man. They were taken to the door of the tailor-shop, while their horses were being brought round. Within the house itself they were met by an old Irishwoman, who, in response to their wish "to see the brave man's body," showed them into a room where a man lay dead with a bullet through his heart. It was the body of Jo Portugais, whose master and friend lay in another room across the hallway. The lady turned back in disappointment--the dead man was little like a hero.
       The Irishwoman had meant to deceive her, for at this moment a girl who loved the tailor was kneeling beside his body, and, if possible, Mrs. Flynn would have no curious eyes look upon that scene.
       When the visitors came into the hall again, the man said: "There was another; Kathleen--a woodsman." But standing by the nearly closed door, behind which lay the dead tailor of Chaudiere--they could see the holy candles flickering within--Kathleen whispered "We've seen the tailor--that's enough. It's only the woodsman there. I prefer not, Tom."
       With his fingers at the latch, the man hesitated, even as Mrs. Flynn stepped apprehensively forward; then, shrugging a shoulder, he responded to Kathleen's hand on his arm. They went down the stairs together, and out to their carriage.
       As they drove away, Kathleen said: "It's strange that men who do such fine things should look so commonplace."
       "The other one might have been more uncommon," he replied.
       "I wonder!" she said, with a sigh of relief, as they passed the bounds of the village. Then she caught herself flushing, for she suddenly realised that the exclamation was one so often on the lips of a dead, disgraced man whose name she once had borne.
       If the door of the little room upstairs had opened to the fingers of the man beside her, the tailor of Chaudiere, though dead, would have been dearly avenged. _

Introduction
Chapter 1. The Way To The Verdict
Chapter 2. What Came Of The Trial
Chapter 3. After Five Years
Chapter 4. Charley Makes A Discovery
Chapter 5. The Woman In Heliotrope
Chapter 6. The Wind And The Shorn Lamb
Chapter 7. "Peace, Peace, And There Is No Peace"
Chapter 8. The Cost Of The Ornament
Chapter 9. Old Debts For New
Chapter 10. The Way In And The Way Out
Chapter 11. The Raising Of The Curtain
Chapter 12. The Coming Of Rosalie
Chapter 13. How Charley Went Adventuring And What He Found
Chapter 14. Rosalie, Charley, And The Man The Widow Plomondon Jilted
Chapter 15. The Mark In The Paper
Chapter 16. Madame Dauphin Has A Mission
Chapter 17. The Tailor Makes A Midnight Foray
Chapter 18. The Stealing Of The Cross
Chapter 19. The Sign From Heaven
Chapter 20. The Return Of The Tailor
Chapter 21. The Cure Has An Inspiration
Chapter 22. The Woman Who Saw
Chapter 23. The Woman Who Did Not Tell
Chapter 24. The Seigneur Takes A Hand In The Game
Chapter 25. The Colonel Tells His Story
Chapter 26. A Song, A Bottle, And A Ghost
Chapter 27. Out On The Old Trail
Chapter 28. The Seigneur Gives A Warning
Chapter 29. The Wild Ride
Chapter 30. Rosalie Warns Charley
Chapter 31. Charley Stands At Bay
Chapter 32. Jo Portugais Tells A Story
Chapter 33. The Edge Of Life
Chapter 34. In Ambush
Chapter 35. The Coming Of Maximilian Cour And Another
Chapter 36. Barriers Swept Away
Chapter 37. The Challenge Of Paulette Dubois
Chapter 38. The Cure And The Seigneur Visit The Tailor
Chapter 39. The Scarlet Woman
Chapter 40. As It Was In The Beginning
Chapter 41. It Was Michaelmas Day
Chapter 42. A Trial And A Verdict
Chapter 43. Jo Portugais Tells A Story
Chapter 44. "Who Was Kathleen?"
Chapter 45. Six Months Go By
Chapter 46. The Forgotten Man
Chapter 47. One Was Taken And The Other Left
Chapter 48. "Where The Tree Of Life Is Blooming--"
Chapter 49. The Open Gate
Chapter 50. The Passion Play At Chaudiere
Chapter 51. Face To Face
Chapter 52. The Coming Of Billy
Chapter 53. The Seigneur And The Cure Have A Suspicion
Chapter 54. M. Rossignol Slips The Leash
Chapter 55. Rosalie Plays A Part
Chapter 56. Mrs. Flynn Speaks
Chapter 57. A Burning Fiery Furnace
Chapter 58. With His Back To The Wall
Chapter 59. In Which Charley Meets A Stranger
Chapter 60. The Hand At The Door
Chapter 61. The Cure Speaks