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The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush By: Francis Lynde (1856-1930) |
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[Illustration: "He's taken our retainer!" snapped the vice president]
THE HONORABLE
SENATOR SAGE BRUSH BY FRANCIS LYNDE
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK : : : : : 1913 COPYRIGHT, 1913, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published September, 1913 [Illustration] TO MR. GEORGE ADY My Regius Professor in the School of Western Railroading, and
himself a keen observer, in situ , of the conditions which I have
herein sought to portray, this book is most affectionately
inscribed. THE AUTHOR.
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE I. BECAUSE PATRICIA SAID "NO" 3 II. THE BOSS 26 III. A FALSE GALLOP OF MEMORIES 40 IV. THE HIGHBINDERS 56 V. AT WARTRACE HALL 69 VI. ON THE WING OF OCCASIONS 86 VII. A BATTLE ROYAL 96 VIII. THE QUEEN'S GAMBIT 110 IX. THE RANK AND FILE 121 X. IN THE HERBARIUM 138 XI. THE GREAT GAME 148 XII. A WELL SPRING IN THE DESERT 165 XIII. THE LIEGEMAN 178 XIV. BARRIERS INVISIBLE 193 XV. SWORD PLAY 203 XVI. THE SAFE BLOWER 213 XVII. ON THE KNEES OF THE HIGH GODS 230 XVIII. THE CHASM 241 XIX. A COG IN THE WHEEL 256 XX. A STONE FOR BREAD 264 XXI. THE UNDER DOG 280 XXII. THE ICONOCLAST 293 XXIII. A CRY IN THE NIGHT 302 XXIV. FIELD HEADQUARTERS 320 XXV. BLOOD AND IRON 327 XXVI. APPLES OF GOLD 343 XXVII. IN WHICH PATRICIA DRIVES 356 XXVIII. THE GOSSIPING WIRES 367 XXIX. AT SHONOHO INN 379 XXX. THE RECKONING 390 XXXI. À LA BONNE HEURE 407
THE HONORABLE SENATOR SAGE BRUSH
I BECAUSE PATRICIA SAID "NO"
Some one was giving a dinner dance at the country club, and Blount, who
was a week end guest of the Beverleys, was ill natured enough to be
resentful. What right had a gay and frivolous world to come and thrust
its light hearted happiness upon him when Patricia had said "No"? It was
like bullying a cripple, he told himself morosely, and when he had read
the single telegram which had come while he was at dinner he begged Mrs.
Beverley's indulgence and went out to find a chair in a corner of the
veranda where the frivolities had not as yet intruded. It was a North Shore night like that in which Shakespeare has mingled
moon shadows with the gossamer fantasies of the immortal "Dream." Though
the dance was in doors, the trees on the lawn and the road fronting
verandas of the club house were hung with festoons of Chinese lanterns.
At the carriage entrance smart automobiles were coming and going, and
one of them, with the dust of the Boston parkways on its running gear,
brought the guests of honor three daughters of a Western senator lately
home from their summer abroad. Blount knew neither the honorers nor the honored ones, and had
resolutely refused the chance offered him by Mrs. Beverley to amend his
ignorance. For Patricia's "No" was not yet twenty four hours old, and
since it had changed the stars in their courses for Patricia's lover,
the cataclysm was much too recent to postulate anything like a return of
the heavenly bodies to their normal orbits. Not that Blount put it that way, either to Mrs. Beverley or to himself.
He was a level eyed, square shouldered young man of an up to date world,
and the stock from which he sprang was prosaic and practical rather than
poetic or sentimental. But the fact remained, and when he sat back in
his corner absently folding the lately received telegram into a narrow
spill and scowling moodily down upon the coming and going procession of
motor cars he was unconsciously giving a very life like imitation of the
disappointed lover the world over... Continue reading book >>
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