Overshadowed

About this eBook

Author

Griggs, Sutton E. (Sutton Elbert), 1872-1933

Title

Overshadowed: A Novel

Credits

E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( www.archive.org/details/americana)

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

African Americans -- Fiction

Category

Text

eBook-No.

36033

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36033

Release Date

May 5, 2011

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.E-text prepared by Suzanne Shell, Mary Meehan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team ( http://www.pgdp.net ) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries ( http://www.archive.org/details/americana ) — OVERSHADOWED. — A NOVEL.
2. 2.BY SUTTON E. GRIGGS — AUTHOR OF "IMPERIUM IN IMPERIO." — NASHVILLE, TENN.: The Orion Publishing Co. 1901. — COPYRIGHTED — Sutton E. Griggs 1901. — DEDICATION. To the Memory of ALBERTA, Who, in the absence of this her oldest brother, crossed over the dark stream, smiling as she went, this volume is most affectionately dedicated by THE AUTHOR.
3. 3.AUTHOR'S PREFACE.
4. 4.CONTENTS.
5. 5.PROEM.
6. 6.OVERSHADOWED.
7. 7.CHAPTER I. — A GIRL, PERPLEXED.
8. 8.CHAPTER II. — THE CAUSE REVEALED BUT NOT REMOVED.
9. 9.CHAPTER III. — OTHER ACTORS.
10. 10.CHAPTER IV. — A LADY WHO DID NOT KNOW THAT SHE WAS A LADY.
11. 11.CHAPTER V. — WHAT A KISS DID.
12. 12.CHAPTER VI. — UP TO DATE ARISTOCRACY IN A NEGRO CHURCH.
13. 13.CHAPTER VII. — REV. JOSIAH NERVE, D. D. S.
14. 14.CHAPTER VIII. — HE NARROWLY ESCAPED.
15. 15.CHAPTER IX. — THE PIT IS DUG.
16. 16.CHAPTER X. — THE VICTIMS.
17. 17.CHAPTER XI. — MURDER!
18. 18.CHAPTER XII. — THE VISIT OF A POLICEMAN.
19. 19.CHAPTER XIII. — BACKWARD, THEN FORWARD.
20. 20.CHAPTER XIV. — AS LEAST EXPECTED.
21. 21.CHAPTER XV. — AN AWFUL RESOLVE.
22. 22.CHAPTER XVI. — A POLITICAL TRICK.
23. 23.CHAPTER XVII. — PAVING THE WAY.
24. 24.CHAPTER XVIII. — JOHN WYSONG CONFESSES.
25. 25.CHAPTER XIX. — ADDED SORROWS.
26. 26.CHAPTER XX. — SPEAKER LANIER.
27. 27.CHAPTER XXI. — THE HANGING.
28. 28.CHAPTER XXII. — WORSE THAN DEATH.
29. 29.CHAPTER XXIII. — FULL OF JOY.
30. 30.CHAPTER XXIV. — OPPOSING THE WEDDING.
31. 31.CHAPTER XXV. — ERMA AND AN ASSASSIN.
32. 32.CHAPTER XXVI. — NAME THE CHAPTER AFTER YOU READ IT.
33. 33.CHAPTER XXVII. — THE FUNERAL.
34. 34.EPILOGUE. — A LAY TO THE COMING KING.

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