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Title: The Lion and The Mouse
A Story Of American Life

Author: Charles Klein

Release Date: November 29, 2004 [EBook #14204]

Language: English

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[Photo, from the play, of Shirley appealing to Mr. Ryder]

"Go to Washington and save my father's life."--Act III.
_Frontispiece._

THE LION AND THE MOUSE

BY

CHARLES KLEIN

A Story _of_ American Life

NOVELIZED FROM THE PLAY BY

ARTHUR HORNBLOW

"Judges and Senators have been bought for gold;
Love and esteem have never been sold."--POPE

* * * * *

ILLUSTRATED BY

STUART TRAVIS

AND

SCENES FROM THE PLAY

* * * * *

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS--NEW YORK

G.W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY

_Entered at Stationers' Hall, London_

Issued August, 1906

CONTENTS

Chapter I
Chapter II
Chapter III
Chapter IV
Chapter V
Chapter VI
Chapter VII
Chapter VIII
Chapter IX
Chapter X
Chapter XI
Chapter XII
Chapter XIII
Chapter XIV
Chapter XV
Chapter XVI

_The Lion and the Mouse_

CHAPTER I

There was unwonted bustle in the usually sleepy and dignified New
York offices of the Southern and Transcontinental Railroad Company
in lower Broadway. The supercilious, well-groomed clerks who, on
ordinary days, are far too preoccupied with their own personal
affairs to betray the slightest interest in anything not
immediately concerning them, now condescended to bestir themselves
and, gathered in little groups, conversed in subdued, eager tones.
The slim, nervous fingers of half a dozen haughty stenographers,
representing as many different types of business femininity, were
busily rattling the keys of clicking typewriters, each of their
owners intent on reducing with all possible despatch the mass of
letters which lay piled up in front of her. Through the heavy
plate-g