In the Heart of a Fool - William Allen White

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1918

Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1918.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER		PAGE
I	Being Stage Directions, and a Cast of Characters.	[1]
II	In Which We Introduce the Fool and His Lady Fair, and What He Said in His Heart–the Same Being the Theme and Thesis of This Story	[4]
III	In Which We Consider the Ladies–God Bless ’Em!	[21]
IV	The Adams Family Bible Lies Like a Gentleman	[38]
V	In Which Margaret Müller Dwells in Marble Halls and Henry Fenn and Kenyon Adams Win Notable Victories	[47]
VI	Enter the Beauty and Chivalry of Harvey; Also Herein We Break Our Finest Heart	[63]
VII	In Which We See How Life Translates Itself Into the Materialism Around It	[69]
VIII	Captain Morton Acts As Court Herald and Morty Sands and Grant Adams Hear Sad News	[80]
IX	Wherein Henry Fenn Tries an Interesting Experiment	[89]
X	In Which Mary Adams Takes a Much Needed Rest	[98]
XI	Wherein a Fool Gropes for a Spirit and Can Find Only Dust	[103]
XII	In Which We Learn That Love Is the Lever That Moves the World	[114]
XIII	In Which We Observe the Interior of a Deserted House	[126]
XIV	In Which Our Hero Strolls out With the Devil to Look at the High Mountain	[135]
XV	Wherein We Welcome in a New Year and Consider a Serious Question	[152]
XVI	Grant Adams Is Sold Into Bondage and Margaret Fenn Receives a Shock	[163]
XVII	A Chapter Which Introduces Some Possible Gods	[180]
XVIII	Our Hero Rides to Hounds With the Primrose Hunt	[187]
XIX	Herein Captain Morton Falls Under Suspicion and Henry Fenn Falls from Grace	[200]
XX	In Which Henry Fenn Falls from Grace and Rises Again	[209]
XXI	In Which We See a Fat Little Rascal on the Rack	[219]
XXII	In Which Tom Van Dorn Becomes a Wayfaring Man Also	[232]
XXIII	Here Grant Adams Discovers His Insides	[241]
XXIV	In Which the Devil Formally Takes the Two Hindermost and Closes an Account in His Ledger	[252]
XXV	In Which We See Two Temples and the Contents Thereof	[264]
XXVI	Dr. Nesbit Starts on a Long Upward but Devious Journey	[277]
XXVII	In Which We See Something Come Into This Story Outside of the Material World	[288]
XXVIII	Wherein Morty Sands Makes a Few Sensible Remarks in Public	[298]
XXIX	Being Not a Chapter but an Interlude	[309]
XXX	Grant Adams Preaching a Message of Love Raises the Very Devil in Harvey	[320]
XXXI	In Which Judge Van Dorn Makes His Brags and Dr. Nesbit Sees a Vision	[337]
XXXII	Wherein Violet Hogan Takes up an Old Trade and Margaret Van Dorn Seeks a Higher Plane	[350]
XXXIII	In Which the Angels Shake a Foot for Henry Fenn	[365]
XXXIV	A Short Chapter, Yet in It We Examine One Canvas Heaven, One Real Heaven, and Two Snug Little Hells	[379]
XXXV	The Old Spider Begins to Divide His Flies With Others and George Brotherton Is Puzzled Twice in One Night	[388]
XXXVI	A Long Chapter but a Busy One, in Which Kenyon Adams and His Mother Have a Strange Meeting, and Lila Van Dorn Takes a Night Ride	[403]
XXXVII	In Which We Witness a Ceremony in the Temple of Love	[423]
XXXVIII	Grant Adams Visits the Sons of Esau	[431]
XXXIX	Being No Chapter at All but an Intermezzo Before the Last Movement	[441]
XL	Here We Have the Fellow and the Girl Beginning to Prepare for the Last Chapter	[444]
XLI	Here We See Grant Adams Conquering His Third and Last Devil	[454]
XLII	A Chapter Which Is Concerned Largely With the Love Affairs of “The Full Strength of the Company”	[468]
XLIII	Wherein We Find Grant Adams Calling Upon Kenyon’s Mother, and Darkness Falls Upon Two Lovers	[496]
XLIV	In Which We Suffer Little Children, With George Brotherton, and in General Consider the Habitants of the Kingdom	[515]
XLV	In Which Lida Bowman Considers Her Universe and Tom Van Dorn Wins Another Victory	[527]
XLVI	Wherein Grant Adams Preaches Peace and Lida Bowman Speaks Her Mind	[543]
XLVII	In Which Grant Adams and Laura Van Dorn Take a Walk Down Market Street and Mrs. Nesbit Acquires a Long Lost Grandson-In-Law	[561]
XLVIII	Wherein We Erect a House Built Upon a Rock	[575]
XLIX	How Morty Sands Turned Away Sadly and Judge Van Dorn Uncovered a Secret	[582]
L	Judge Van Dorn Sings Some Merry Songs and They Take Grant Adams Behind a White Door	[597]
LI	In Which We End As We Began and All Live Happily Ever After	[609]
LII	Not Exactly a Chapter but Rather a Q. E. D. or a Hic Fabula Docet	[613]

1IN THE HEART OF A FOOL