# Out of the Ashes Author: Grant, Ethel Watts Mumford, 1878-1940 Genre: Category: Novels Language: English License: Public domain Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/13273 Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Out+of+the+Ashes+Grant&tag=cyberlibrar00-20 ## Summary Marcus Gard sat at his library table apparently in rapt contemplation of a pair of sixteenth century bronze inkwells, strange twisted shapes, half man, half beast, bearing in their breasts twin black pools. But his thoughts were far from their grotesque beauty--centered on vast schemes of destruction and reconstruction. The room was still, so quiet, in spite of its proximity to the crowded life of Fifth Avenue, that one divined its steel construction and the doubled and trebled casing of its many windows. The walls, hung with green Genoese velvet, met a carved and coffered ceiling, and touched the upper shelf of the breast-high bookcases that lined the walls. No picture broke the simple u... ## Chapters - [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/out-of-the-ashes-13273/chapters/5/index.md) - [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/out-of-the-ashes-13273/chapters/6/index.md) - [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/out-of-the-ashes-13273/chapters/10/index.md) - [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/out-of-the-ashes-13273/chapters/11/index.md) - [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/out-of-the-ashes-13273/chapters/12/index.md) - [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/out-of-the-ashes-13273/chapters/9/index.md) - [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/out-of-the-ashes-13273/chapters/7/index.md) - [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/out-of-the-ashes-13273/chapters/13/index.md) - [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/out-of-the-ashes-13273/chapters/4/index.md) - [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/out-of-the-ashes-13273/chapters/8/index.md) - [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/out-of-the-ashes-13273/chapters/3/index.md) - [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/out-of-the-ashes-13273/chapters/2/index.md) - [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/out-of-the-ashes-13273/chapters/1/index.md) - [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/out-of-the-ashes-13273/chapters/14/index.md)