OLIVER
OCTOBER
BY
GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON
AUTHOR OF
“BEVERLY OF GRAUSTARK,” “SHERRY,”
“VIOLA GWYN,” ETC.
NEW YORK
DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY
1923
Copyright, 1922, 1923,
By DODD, MEAD AND COMPANY, Inc.
PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY
The Quinn & Boden Company
BOOK MANUFACTURERS
RAHWAY NEW JERSEY
| CONTENTS | ||
| CHAPTER | PAGE | |
| I | Oliver is Born in October | [1] |
| II | His Relatives and His Neighbors | [15] |
| III | Women in Red Shawls | [36] |
| IV | His Fortune—Good and Bad | [46] |
| V | Oliver is Found To Have a Temper | [65] |
| VI | A Pastor Promises Aid | [85] |
| VII | The Minister’s Wife | [94] |
| VIII | Gliding over a Few Years | [109] |
| IX | Home from the War | [128] |
| X | Idle Days | [140] |
| XI | Old Oliver Disappears | [155] |
| XII | One Way of Looking at It | [166] |
| XIII | The Good Samaritan Pays | [174] |
| XIV | Jealousy Without Love | [185] |
| XV | The Third Fair Lady | [196] |
| XVI | Mr. Joseph Sikes Intervenes | [201] |
| XVII | Mr. Gooch Declares Himself | [212] |
| XVIII | Josephine and Henry the Eighth | [228] |
| XIX | Oliver Complains | [242] |
| XX | Detective Malone | [252] |
| XXI | Love Without Jealousy | [265] |
| XXII | The Corpus Delicti | [281] |
| XXIII | The Brewing of the Storm | [294] |
| XXIV | The Hanging | [308] |
| XXV | Mr. Gooch Sees Things at Night | [322] |
Oliver October