# The Light that Lies

Author: McCutcheon, George Barr, 1866-1928; Cootes, F. Graham (Frank Graham), 1879-1960 [Illustrator]

Genre: Category: Romance

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/54098

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Light+that+Lies+McCutcheon&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

Sampson had been uncommonly successful in evading jury service. By some hook or crook he always had managed to “get off,” and he had begun to regard his trips down to General or Special Sessions--coming with monotonous regularity about three times a year--as interruptions instead of annoyances. Wise men advised him to serve and get it over with for the time being, but he had been so steadfastly resourceful in confining his jury service to brief and uneventful “appearances,” and to occasional examinations as to his fitness to serve as a juror, that he preferred to trust to his smartness rather than to their wisdom. Others suggested that he get on the “sheriff's jury,” a quaintly distinguis...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lies-54098/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lies-54098/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lies-54098/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lies-54098/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-light-that-lies-54098/chapters/1/index.md)