# A spectre of power

Author: Craddock, Charles Egbert, 1850-1922

Genre: Category: Historical Novels

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76105

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=A+spectre+of+power+Craddock&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

IT so chanced that Eve, with all her primeval curiosity, dwelt in the Cherokee town of Great Tellico. Hence came disaster. To the inquisitiveness of the woman it was always imputed, although the undisciplined heart of man, the turbulent impulses of ambition, and the serpentine supersubtlety of a covetous political scheme were potent elements. Little, indeed, such as she might seem concerned with matters of high import. From afar, unindividualized among scores of the other subservient Cherokee women standing on the banks of the glittering Tennessee River, she had watched the approach of the herald of the embassy. A Choctaw Indian he was revealed as he ran holding broadly outstretched in ea...

## Chapters

- [Chapter XXII 396](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/a-spectre-of-power-76105/chapters/1/index.md)