Although A.E.W. Mason is best known for The Four Feathers, an adventure novel of 1902 set in Egypt and the Sudan (and filmed several times), he was a prolific and popular writer of the period. Running Water, published in 1907, is, like its predecessor, a tale of romantic adventure. Though much of the story takes place in England, the real setting here is in the high Alps, in the range of Mont Blanc near Chamonix and Courmayeur. Here it is that Captain Hilary Chayne arrives, having spent the prior four years of his army service on the shores of the...
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26 - Running Water
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25 - A Night on an Ice-Slope
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24 - The Brenva Ridge
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23 - Michel Revailloud\'s Führbuch
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22 - Revailloud Revisited
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21 - Chayne Comes to Conclusions
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20 - On the Down
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19 - The Shadow in the Room
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18 - Both Sides of the Question
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17 - Sylvia Tells More Than She Knows
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16 - As Between Gentlemen
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15 - Kenyon\'s John Lattery
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14 - An Old Passion Betrays a New Secret
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13 - Chayne Returns
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12 - The House of the Running Water
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11 - Sylvia\'s Father Makes a Mistake
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10 - A Little Round Game of Cards
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09 - Sylvia Makes the Acquaintance of Her Father
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08 - Sylvia Parts From Her Mother
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07 - The Aiguille de l\'Argentière