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Title: The Deluge

Author: David Graham Phillips

Release Date: April, 2005 [EBook #7832]
Posting Date: August 4, 2009

Language: English

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THE DULUGE

By David Graham Phillips

Author of The Cost, The Plum Tree, The Social Secretary, etc.

With Illustrations By George Gibbs

CONTENTS

I MR. BLACKLOCK
II IN THOSE DAYS AROSE KINGS
III CAME A WOMAN
IV A CANDIDATE FOR "RESPECTABILITY"
V DANGER SIGNALS
VI OF "GENTLEMEN"
VII BLACKLOCK GOES INTO TRAINING
VIII ON THE TRAIL OF LANGDON
IX LANGDON AT HOME
X TWO "PILLARS OF SOCIETY"
XI WHEN A MAN IS NOT A MAN
XII ANITA
XIII "UNTIL TO-MORROW"
XIV FRESH AIR IN A GREENHOUSE
XV SOME STRANGE LAPSES OF A LOVER
XVI TRAPPED AND TRIMMED
XVII A GENTEEL "HOLD-UP"
XVIII ANITA BEGINS TO BE HERSELF
XIX A WINDFALL FROM "GENTLEMAN JOE"
XX A BREATHING SPELL
XXI MOST UNLADYLIKE
XXII MOST UNGENTLEMANLY
XXIII "SHE HAS CHOSEN"
XXIV BLACKLOCK ATTENDS FAMILY PRAYERS
XXV "MY WIFE MUST"
XXVI THE WEAK STRAND
XXVII A CONSPIRACY AGAINST ANITA
XXVIII BLACKLOCK SEES A LIGHT
XXIX A HOUSEWARMING
XXX BLACKLOCK OPENS FIRE
XXXI ANITA'S SECRET
XXXII LANGDON COMES TO THE SURFACE
XXXIII MRS. LANGDON MAKES A CALL
XXXIV "MY RIGHT EYE OFFENDS ME"
XXXV "WILD WEEK"
XXXVI "BLACK MATT'S" TRIUMPH

I. MR. BLACKLOCK

When Napoleon was about to crown himself--so I have somewhere read--they
submitted to him the royal genealogy they had faked up for him. He crumpled
the parchment and flung it in the face of the chief herald, or whoever it
was. "My line," said he, "dates from Montenotte." And so I say, my line
dates from the campaign that completed and established my fame--from "Wild
Week."

I shall not pause to recite the details of the obscurity from which I
emerged. It would be an interesting, a romantic story; but it is a familiar
story, also, in this land which Lincoln so finely and so fully described
when he said: "The repu