OCTOBER
CONTENTS
CHAPTER
I [I am Presented with an Overcoat]
II [The House of Blazes]
III [A Glimpse of Sunshine]
IV [Machiavelli in Bronze]
V [Miss Kendrick's Pleasure]
VI [Big Sam's Diplomacy]
VII [In the Current]
VIII [A Contribution to the Cause]
IX [Peter Bolton]
X [A Council of War]
XI [Troubles in the Market]
XII [The Lottery Ticket]
XII [The Wisdom of His Ancestors]
XIV [Bargaining]
XV [A Ripple of Trouble]
XVI [Laying Down the Law]
XVII [Big Sam's Warning]
XVIII [Little John as a Man of Action]
XIX [Mischief Afoot]
XX [On the Sand-Lots]
XXI [Battle]
XXII [I Become a Man of Business]
XXIII [The Committee of Safety]
XXIV [The Justice of Big Sam]
XXV [Facing a Crisis]
XXVI [On the Precipice]
XXVII [A Call to Arms]
XXVIII [With the Pick-Handle Brigade]
XXIX [A Tongue of Fire]
XXX [The End of the Feud]
XXXI [The Broken Web]
XXXII [The Answer]
THE APPLE OF DISCORD
CHAPTER I
I AM PRESENTED WITH AN OVERCOAT
Colonel Wharton Kendrick leaned back in his chair, stroked his red side-whiskers reflectively, and looked across the table with an expression of embarrassment on his round ruddy face. For the moment his command of words had evidently failed him.
As embarrassment and failure of language were equally foreign to his nature, I was confirmed in a growing suspicion that there had been an ulterior purpose behind his cordial invitation to luncheon. The meal had been a good one, and he was paying for it, and so I felt that I owed him my moral support. Therefore, I returned such a look of encouragement as might properly express the feelings of a fledgling attorney toward a millionaire who was the probable source of active litigation, and waited for him to speak.