The Quickening

Tom was fronting the firebrand Dabney like a man. Page 398
Author of The Grafters, The Master of Appleby, etc., etc.
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY E.M. ASHE
INDIANAPOLIS THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY PUBLISHERS
Copyright 1906 Francis Lynde
March
PRESS OF BRAUNWORTH & CO. BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS BROOKLYN, N.Y.
To My Mother

The revival in Paradise Valley, conducted by the Reverend Silas Crafts, of South Tredegar, was in the middle of its second week, and the field—to use Brother Crafts' own word—was white to the harvest.
Little Zoar, the square, weather-tinged wooden church at the head of the valley, built upon land donated to the denomination in times long past by an impenitent but generous Major Dabney, stood a little way back from the pike in a grove of young pines. By half-past six of the June evening the revivalist's congregation had begun to assemble.