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Title: The Plum Tree

Author: David Graham Phillips

Illustrator: E. M. Ashe

Release Date: January 25, 2007 [EBook #20449]

Language: English

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[Illustration: SHE WAS AT THE STATION IN HER PHAETON TO MEET ME]

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THE PLUM TREE

By
DAVID GRAHAM PHILLIPS

Author of
The Cost, Golden Fleece, Etc.

Illustrated By
E. M. ASHE

NEW YORK
GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS

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Copyright 1905
The Bobbs-Merrill Company

March

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CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. HOW IT ALL BEGAN 1
II. AT THE COURT OF A SOVEREIGN 17
III. SAYLER "DRAWS THE LINE" 33
IV. THE SCHOOL OF LIFE-AS-IT-IS 44
V. A GOOD MAN AND HIS WOES 68
VI. MISS RAMSAY REVOLTS 78
VII. BYGONES 96
VIII. A CALL FROM "THE PARTY" 107
IX. TO THE SEATS OF THE MIGHTY 123
X. THE FACE IN THE CROWD 136
XI. BURBANK 144
XII. BURBANK FIRES THE POPULAR HEART 163
XIII. ROEBUCK & CO. PASS UNDER THE YOKE 168
XIV. A "BOOM-FACTORY" 177
XV. MUTINY 193
XVI. A VICTORY FOR THE PEOPLE 199
XVII. SCARBOROUGH 209
XVIII. A DANGEROUS PAUSE 221
XIX. DAVID SENT OUT AGAINST GOLIATH 224