Opening a Chestnut Burr by Edward Payson Roe

Table of Contents

• Preface
• Chapter I. A Hero, but not Heroic
• Chapter II. Opening a Chestnut Burr
• Chapter III. Morbid Brooding
• Chapter IV. How Miss Walton Managed People
• Chapter V. Was it an Accident?
• Chapter VI. Unexpected Chestnut Burrs
• Chapter VII. A Conspiracy
• Chapter VIII. Witchcraft
• Chapter IX. Miss Walton Recommends a Hobby
• Chapter X. A Plot Against Miss Walton
• Chapter XI. A Drinking-Song at a Prayer-Meeting
• Chapter XII. Foiled in One Direction
• Chapter XIII. Interpreting Chestnut Burrs
• Chapter XIV. "A Well-Meanin' Man"
• Chapter XV. Miss Walton's Dream
• Chapter XVI. An Accident in the Mountains
• Chapter XVII. "Promise or Die"
• Chapter XVIII. In the Depths
• Chapter XIX. Miss Walton Made of Different Clay from Others
• Chapter XX. Miss Walton Made of Ordinary Clay
• Chapter XXI. Passion and Penitence
• Chapter XXII. Not a Heroine, but a Woman
• Chapter XXIII. Gregory's Final Conclusion in Regard to Miss Walton
• Chapter XXIV. "The Worm-Infested Chestnut"--Gregory Tells the Worst
• Chapter XXV. The Old Home in Danger--Gregory Retrieves Himself
• Chapter XXVI. Changes in Gregory
• Chapter XXVII. Pleading for Life and Love
• Chapter XXVIII. What a Lover Could Do
• Chapter XXIX. Deepening Shadows
• Chapter XXX. Kept from the Evil
• Chapter XXXI. "Live! Live!"--Annie's Appeal
• Chapter XXXII. At Sea--A Mysterious Passenger
• Chapter XXXIII. Collision at Sea--What a Christian Could Do
• Chapter XXXIV. Unmasked
• Chapter XXXV. A Chestnut Burr and a Home