# By the Barrow River, and Other Stories

Author: Leamy, Edmund, 1848-1904; Tynan, Katharine, 1861-1931 [Author of introduction, etc.]

Genre: Category: Short Stories

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42555

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=By+the+Barrow+River%2C+and+Other+Stories+Leamy&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

He looked a man of seventy-five at least. The scant hair of his head was like silver. His long, hatchet-like face was almost waxen in appearance, and remarkably free from wrinkles, and in the grey eyes shone some of the old fire. But it was evident as he lay there that not only his hours but his minutes were numbered. Between the midnight and the dawn seems to be the time chosen by the Messenger of Death to bring the last imperative, unavoidable summons, especially to the old whose footsteps have lingered in the ways of life. It is, perhaps, kindly meant, for it is the time when the rational forces are weakest, and when the chief desire--faint at best--is for repose.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IV.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-barrow-river-and-other-stories-42555/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-barrow-river-and-other-stories-42555/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-barrow-river-and-other-stories-42555/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II.](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/by-the-barrow-river-and-other-stories-42555/chapters/2/index.md)