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Title: With Edge Tools

Author: Hobart Chatfield-Taylor

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Language: English

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WITH EDGE TOOLS

BY HOBART CHATFIELD TAYLOR

CHICAGO
A. C. McCLURG AND COMPANY
1891

COPYRIGHT,
BY A. C. MCCLURG AND CO.
A. D. 1891.

CONTENTS.

I. THE STATEN CLUB

II. CROSS FIRE

III. TWO WOMEN

IV. IN AN OPERA BOX

V. A CHALLENGE

VI. SPANISH CASTLES

VII. THE PATRICIANS

VIII. GATHERING CLOUDS

IX. OAKHURST

X. "I WILL LAUGH, TOO"

XI. UNDER THE WILLOWS

XII. UNREST

XIII. DERBY DAY

XIV. DANGER

XV. A GAME OF SKILL

XVI. IN THE LIBRARY

WITH EDGE TOOLS.

CHAPTER I.

THE STATEN CLUB.

In the world of clubs the "Staten" held its head proudly. It was a
social union comprising the most exclusive men of family and fashion.
Though its outward walls differed little from those of other clubs which
lined the avenue, its muster-roll was sacredly guarded by the governors,
and posted at the hall desk was a long list of waiting aspirants, each
to undergo in his turn the scrutiny of the committee-room, where all
antecedents must be known and approved before his card could bear
"Staten Club" in the left-hand, lower corner. Other club buildings there
were, in New York, of greater stateliness, with marble walls and
galleries, and well filled libraries, but the "Staten" cared for none of
these, and proudly pointed to its members' list, where were inscribed
five hundred names which no other club could ever hope to equal. Three
rooms, the restaurant, cafe, and billiard room, received their share of
patronage, while the lounging room, upon the avenue, where a