Mrs. Radigan: Her Biography, with that of Miss Pearl Veal, and the Memoirs of J. Madison Mudison

MRS. RADIGAN
HER BIOGRAPHY, WITH THAT OF MISS PEARL VEAL, AND THE MEMOIRS OF J. MADISON MUDISON
NELSON Lloyd
AUTHOR OF THE SOLDIER OF THE VALLEY, ETC.
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS 1905
Copyright, 1905, by Charles Scribner's Sons Published, September, 1905
TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK
CONTENTS

MRS. RADIGAN
The First Chapter and the Last
When I was in college, in that brief interval between the foot-ball and the rowing season in which my mind was turned to books, I had dreams, very faint and illusive, but still dreams, that some day, when the four-year eligibility rule barred me from further struggles on the gridiron and the river, I should fall to work and win fame. Even at that time I was famous. My picture was almost a daily feature of the metropolitan journals, and my weight, height, and chest-measure were solemnly recorded at regular intervals for the information and instruction of the hundreds of thousands of students of that greatest of modern educators—the newspaper. It cannot be frankly said that I looked for anything finer than this, but I did want something more lasting. Young as I was, I realized that the great half-back of to-day is the coach of to-morrow, and the day after the clerk in a country store, or the garrulous bore who sits about the club and talks of games long since forgotten. So I cast about for fields where new laurels could be gathered. But how quickly laurels wither! How fine they are to the eye, yet as food how unsatisfying! So I opened a real-estate office.