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Title: The Rapids

Author: Alan Sullivan

Release Date: June 13, 2008 [EBook #25774]

Language: English

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THE RAPIDS

BY

ALAN SULLIVAN

AUTHOR OF "THE INNER DOOR," ETC.

THE COPP CLARK CO., LIMITED

TORONTO

Copyright, Canada, 1922, by

THE COPP CLARK COMPANY, LIMITED

TORONTO, ONTARIO

_The Copp Clark Press_

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. CLARK DISCOVERS ARCADIA
II. ARCADIA WAKES UP
III. PHILADELPHIA HEARS ABOUT ARCADIA
IV. PRELIMINARIES IN ST. MARYS
V. THE BEGINNING OF A NEW ERA
VI. CONCERNING IRON, WOOD AND A GIRL
VII. THE BISHOP'S GARDEN PARTY--AND AFTERWARDS
VIII. IRON
IX. CONCERNING THE APPREHENSION OF CLARK'S DIRECTORS
X. CUPIDITY VS. LOYALTY
XI. CLARK EXPERIENCES A NEW SENSATION, ALSO HIS DIRECTORS
XII. LOVE AND DOUBT
XIII. THE VOICE OF THE RAPIDS
XIV. AN ANCIENT ARISTOCRAT VISITS THE WORKS
XV. CLARK CONVERTS TORONTO
XVI. GOLD, ALSO CONCERNING A GIRL
XVII. THE GIRL IN THE CANOE
XVIII. MATTERS FINANCIAL
XIX. THE WEB OF LACHESIS
XX. THE CAR OF PROGRESS HALTS
XXI. THE CRASH
XXII. THE MASTER MIND AT WORK
XXIII. CONCERNING THE RIOT
XXIV. DESTINY
XXV. THE UNCONQUERABLE SPIRIT
EPILOGUE

THE RAPIDS

I.--CLARK DISCOVERS ARCADIA

Amongst the few who knew Robert Fisher Clark at all well, for there
were not many of them, there was no question as to his beliefs. It was
too obvious that his primary faith was in himself. Nor is it known
whether, at any time, he gave any thought or study to the character of
those with whom, in the course of his remarkably active life, he came
into association. Always it appeared that there was laid upon him the
responsibility of doing things which did not occur to the ordinary man,
and he went about them with such supreme confidence and unremitting
enthusiasm that he infused into his followers much of his communicable
zeal. It appears now that Clark weighed a man by appraising