title: Verdict on the shroud: Evidence for the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ
author:  Kenneth E. Stevenson 
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  The Altar of the Dead
  
  
  CHAPTER I.
  
  CHAPTER II.
  
  CHAPTER III.
  
  CHAPTER IV.
  
  CHAPTER V.
  
  CHAPTER VI.
  
  CHAPTER VII.
  
  CHAPTER VIII.
  
  CHAPTER IX.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  # The Altar of the Dead
  
  
  ### Henry James
  
  
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  * CHAPTER I.
  
  
  * CHAPTER II.
  
  
  * CHAPTER III.
  
  
  * CHAPTER IV.
  
  
  * CHAPTER V.
  
  
  * CHAPTER VI.
  
  
  * CHAPTER VII.
  
  
  * CHAPTER VIII.
  
  
  * CHAPTER IX.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
      
  
  Transcribed from the 1916 Martin Secker edition by David Price, email
  
  
  ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
  
  
  ### CHAPTER I.
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
    
  He had a mortal dislike, poor Stransom, to lean anniversaries, and
  
  
  loved them still less when they made a pretence of a figure.
  
  
  Celebrations and suppressions were equally painful to him, and but one
  
  
  of the former found a place in his life. He had kept each year in his
  
  
  own fashion the date of Mary Antrim's death. It would be more to the
  
  
  point perhaps to say that this 