Chapter IX: A Sacrifice Accepted 169

X. In the Fourth Watch 192

XI. The Lowest Hell 210

XII. "At Last it is Peace" 220

ILLUSTRATIONS

"He Repeated all the Blessed Words" _Frontispiece_

A Lerwick Man 33

"The Waters of the Great Deep" 55

"'I Want to Find my Father's People'" 91

Nanna and Vala 103

"But she Held her Peace" 133

At the Kirk 137

Peat-gatherers 161

Groat 193

On the Way to Nanna's Cottage 223

"Went in and out among his Mates" 237

PRISONERS OF CONSCIENCE

Book First

LIOT BORSON

BOOK FIRST

CONTENTS

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I. The Weaving of Doom 3

II. Jealousy Cruel as the Grave 23