The cover has been created by the transcriber usingelements from the original publication and placed in the public domain.
Julius LeVallon
The cover has been created by the transcriber usingelements from the original publication and placed in the public domain.
Julius LeVallon
An Episode
By
Algernon Blackwood
Author of “The Centaur,” “John Silence,”“The Human Chord,” etc.
Cassell and Company, Ltd
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
First published 1916
TO
M. S-K.
(1906)
Contents
| PAGE | |
| BOOK I | |
| Schooldays | 3 |
| BOOK II | |
| Edinburgh | 77 |
| BOOK III | |
| The Châlet in the Jura Mountains | 149 |
| BOOK IV | |
| The Attempted Restitution | 267 |
“Surely death acquires a new and deeper significance when weregard it no longer as a single and unexplained break in anunending life, but as part of the continually recurring rhythmof progress—as inevitable, as natural, and as benevolent assleep.”—“Some Dogmas of Religion” (Prof. J. M’Taggart).
IT was one autumn in the late ’nineties that I found myself at Bâle,awaiting letters. I was returning leisurely from the Dolomites, wherea climbing holiday had combined pleasantly with an examination of thegeologically in