The Giant's Robe

Mark Ashburn is a young teacher at St. Peter's Public School for boys, although he isn't particularly fond of boys. His dream is to make his name in the literary world but mediocrity and rejection meet him at every turn. Dejected, he meets up with Vincent, an old friend, who is about to travel to his father's plantation in Ceylon and asks a favor of Mark. Mark makes a rash promise to help, never suspecting anything would ever be required of him. Backed into a corner, he makes a decision that affects his and others' lives forever.


By : F. Anstey (1856 - 1934)

01 - An Intercessor



02 - A Last Walk



03 - Good-bye



04 - Malakoff Terrace



05 - Neighbours



06 - So Near and yet so Far



07 - In the Fog



08 - Bad News



09 - A Turning-point



10 - Repente Turpissimus



11 - Revolt



12 - Launched



13 - A 'Thorn and Flower Piece'



14 - In the Spring



15 - Harold Caffyn Makes a Discovery



16 - A Change of Front



17 - In which Mark Makes an Enemy and Recovers a Friend



18 - A Dinner Party



19 - Dolly's Deliverance



20 - A Declaration—of War



21 - A Parley with the Enemy



22 - Striking the Trail



23 - Piano Practice



24 - A Meeting in Germany



25 - Mabel's Answer



26 - Visits of Ceremony



27 - Clear Sky—and a Thunderbolt



28 - Mark Knows the Worst



29 - On Board the 'Coromandel'



30 - The Way of Transgressors



31 - Agag



32 - At Wastwater



33 - In Suspense



34 - On the Laufenplatz



35 - Missed Fire



36 - Little Rifts



37 - Mark Accepts a Disagreeable Duty



38 - Harold Caffyn Makes a Palpable Hit



39 - Caffyn Springs His Mine



40 - The Effects of an Explosion



41 - A Final Victory



42 - From the Grave



43 - Conclusion


IT has been my intention from the first to take this opportunity of stating that, if I am indebted to any previous work for the central idea of a stolen manuscript, such obligation should be ascribed to a short tale, published some time ago in one of the Christmas numbers—the only story upon the subject which I have read at present.

It was the story of a German student who, having found in the library of his university an old scientific manuscript, by a writer long since dead and forgotten, produced it as his own; and it is so probable that the recollection of this incident became quite unconsciously the germ of the present book that, although the matter is not of general importance, I feel it only fair to mention it here.

I trust, nevertheless, that it is not necessary to insist upon any claim to the average degree of originality; for if the book does not bear the traces of honest and independent work, that is a defect which is scarcely likely to be removed by the most eloquent and argumentative of prefaces.

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