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The Price By: Francis Lynde (1856-1930) |
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BY FRANCIS LYNDE AUTHOR OF
THE TAMING OF RED BUTTE WESTERN, ETC. [Illustration] NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS Published by Arrangement with Charles Scribner's Sons
COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published May, 1911 [Illustration]
To MR. LATHROP BROCKWAY BULLENE SOLE FRIEND OF MY BOYHOOD, WHO WILL RECALL BETTER
THAN ANY THE YOUTHFUL MORAL AND SOCIAL SEED TIME
WHICH HAS LED TO THIS LATER HARVESTING OF CONCLUSION,
THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED.
CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. AT CHAUDIÈRE'S 1 II. SPINDRIFT 9 III. THE RIGHT OF MIGHT 16 IV. IO TRIUMPHE! 26 V. THE BELLE JULIE 34 VI. THE DECK HAND 44 VII. GOLD OF TOLOSA 53 VIII. THE CHAIN GANG 59 IX. THE MIDDLE WATCH 68 X. QUICKSANDS 75 XI. THE ANARCHIST 84 XII. MOSES ICHTHYOPHAGUS 94 XIII. GRISWOLD EMERGENT 110 XIV. PHILISTIA 116 XV. THE GOTHS AND VANDALS 126 XVI. GOOD SAMARITANS 143 XVII. GROPINGS 154 XVIII. THE ZWEIBUND 165 XIX. LOSS AND GAIN 175 XX. THE CONVALESCENT 187 XXI. BROFFIN'S EQUATION 201 XXII. IN THE BURGLAR PROOF 218 XXIII. CONVERGING ROADS 234 XXIV. THE FORWARD LIGHT 248 XXV. THE BRIDGE OF JEHENNAM 260 XXVI. PITFALLS 274 XXVII. IN THE SHADOWS 286 XXVIII. BROKEN LINKS 295 XXIX. ALL THAT A MAN HATH 312 XXX. THE VALLEY OF DRY BONES 332 XXXI. NARROWING WALLS 347 XXXII. THE LION'S SHARE 354 XXXIII. GATES OF BRASS 368 XXXIV. THE ABYSS 375 XXXV. MARGERY'S ANSWER 384 XXXVI. THE GRAY WOLF 396 XXXVII. THE QUALITY OF MERCY 408 XXXVIII. THE PENDULUM SWING 416 XXXIX. DUST AND ASHES 428 XL. APPLES OF ISTAKHAR 438 XLI. THE DESERT AND THE SOWN 448
THE PRICE I AT CHAUDIÈRE'S
In the days when New Orleans still claimed distinction as the only
American city without trolleys, sky scrapers, or fast trains was it
yesterday? or the day before? there was a dingy, cobwebbed café in an
arcade off Camp Street which was well beloved of newspaperdom;
particularly of that wing of the force whose activities begin late and
end in the small hours. "Chaudière's," it was called, though I know not if that were the name of
the round faced, round bodied little Marseillais who took toll at the
desk. But all men knew the fame of its gumbo and its stuffed crabs, and
that its claret was neither very bad nor very dear. And if the walls
were dingy and the odors from the grille pungent and penetrating at
times, there went with the white sanded floor, and the marble topped
tables for two, an Old World air of recreative comfort which is rarer
now, even in New Orleans, than it was yesterday or the day before. It was at Chaudière's that Griswold had eaten his first breakfast in the
Crescent City; and it was at Chaudière's again that he was sharing a
farewell supper with Bainbridge, of the Louisianian . Six weeks lay
between that and this; forty odd days of discouragement and failure
superadded upon other similar days and weeks and months. The breakfast,
he remembered, had been garnished with certain green sprigs of hope; but
at the supper table he ate like a barbarian in arrears to his appetite
and the garnishings were the bitter herbs of humiliation and defeat. Without meaning to, Bainbridge had been strewing the path with fresh
thorns for the defeated one... Continue reading book >>
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