Copyright, 1919, by
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
Published August, 1919

TO
THE RIGHT REVEREND
THOMAS FRANK GAILOR
BISHOP OF TENNESSEE
MY BISHOP, ADVISER, AND FRIEND, THIS
BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY
INSCRIBED

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. In the Green Tree[ 1]
II. The Deluge[ 8]
III. Eben Grillage[ 26]
IV. An Honorable Discharge[ 40]
V. Gloriana[ 55]
VI. The Henchman[ 68]
VII. A Reward of Merit[ 89]
VIII. Out of the Past[ 103]
IX. Silas Plegg[ 113]
X. The Miry Clay[ 127]
XI. Bridge Number Two[ 143]
XII. Under the High Stars[ 160]
XIII. Altman’s Nerves[ 173]
XIV. The Mucker[ 186]
XV. Plegg’s Back-Fire[ 198]
XVI. Master and Man[ 207]
XVII. The Tar-Barrel[ 220]
XVIII. In Loco Parentis[ 237]
XIX. The Ultimatum[ 251]
XX. In the Ore Shed[ 264]
XXI. The Other David[ 277]
XXII. At Bridge Three[ 293]
XXIII. The Killer[ 312]
XXIV. No Thoroughfare[ 323]
XXV. Cataclysmic[ 339]
XXVI. The Heart of Qojogo[ 357]
XXVII. The Terror[ 370]
XXVIII. Regeneration[ 381]
XXIX. As It Should Be[ 390]

DAVID VALLORY

DAVID VALLORY

I
In the Green Tree

DAVID VALLORY’S train, to make which he had precipitately thrown down pencil and mapping-pen in the drafting room of the Government harbor-deepening project on the Florida coast two days earlier, was an hour late arriving at Middleboro; and in this first home-coming from the distant assignment, the aspect of things once so familiar seemed jarred a trifle out of focus. It was not that the June fields were less green, or the factory suburb through which the long train was slowing more littered and unsightly. But there was a change, and it was in a manner depressive.

“Your home town?” inquired the traveler in the opposite half of the Pullman section, as Vallory began to assemble his various belongings.