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The Prodigal Judge

By VAUGHAN KESTER

This great novel--probably the most popular book in this country
to-day--is as human as a story from the pen of that great master of
"immortal laughter and immortal tears," Charles Dickens.

The Prodigal Judge is a shabby outcast, a tavern hanger-on, a genial
wayfarer who tarries longest where the inn is most hospitable, yet
with that suavity, that distinctive politeness and that saving grace
of humor peculiar to the American man. He has his own code of
morals--very exalted ones--but honors them in the breach rather than
in the observance.

Clinging to the Judge closer than a brother, is Solomon
Mahaffy--fallible and failing like the rest of us, but with a sublime
capacity for friendship; and closer still, perhaps, clings little
Hannibal, a boy about whose parentage nothing is known until the end
of the story. Hannibal is charmed into tolerance of the Judge's
picturesque vices, while Miss Betty, lovely and capricious, is charmed
into placing all her affairs, both material and sentimental, in the
hands of this delightful old vagabond.

The Judge will be a fixed star in the firmament of fictional
characters as surely as David Harum or Col. Sellers. He is a source of
infinite delight, while this story of Mr. Kester's is one of the
finest examples of American literary craftsmanship.

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words and intent.

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