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The Project Gutenberg eBook, Jacob's Ladder, by E. Phillips Oppenheim, Illustrated by F. Vaux Wilson This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Jacob's Ladder Author: E. Phillips Oppenheim Release Date: June 7, 2010 [eBook #32732] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) ***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK JACOB'S LADDER*** E-text prepared by D Alexander and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive/American Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/americana) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 32732-h.htm or 32732-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32732/32732-h/32732-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32732/32732-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive/American Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/jacobsladder00oppe JACOB'S LADDER by E. PHILLIPS OPPENHEIM With Frontispiece by F. Vaux Wilson Boston Little, Brown, and Company 1921 Copyright, 1921, By Little, Brown, and Company. All rights reserved Published February, 1921 The Colonial Press C. H. Simonds Co., Boston, U. S. A. [Illustration: "I AM OBLIGED TO YOU ALL FOR PUTTING UP WITH MY COMPANY FOR SO LONG." FRONTISPIECE. _See page 17._] JACOB'S LADDER PROLOGUE Seated at breakfast on that memorable July morning, Jacob Pratt presented all the appearance of a disconsolate man. His little country sitting-room was as neat and tidy as the capable hands of the inimitable Mrs. Harris could make it. His coffee was hot and his eggs were perfectly boiled. Through the open windows stretched a little vista of the many rows of standard roses which had been the joy of his life. Yet blank misery dwelt in the soul of this erstwhile cheerful little man, and the spirit of degradation hung like a gloomy pall over his thoughts and being. Only the day before he had filed his petition in bankruptcy. The usual morning programme was carried out, only, alas
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