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The Project Gutenberg EBook of A Melody in Silver, by Keene Abbott 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: A Melody in Silver Author: Keene Abbott Release Date: May 22, 2006 [EBook #18434] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A MELODY IN SILVER *** Produced by Jeannie Howse, Barbara Tozier, Bill Tozier and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net A MELODY IN SILVER By KEENE ABBOTT BOSTON AND NEW YORK HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY The Riverside Press Cambridge 1911 COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY KEENE ABBOTT ALL RIGHTS RESERVED _Published April 1911_ CONTENTS I. THE LOST CAUSE 1 II. RUE AND ROSEMARY 14 III. THE WORLD'S END 20 IV. DEAD SEA FRUIT 30 V. THE MUG OF WOE 43 VI. "FAV-VER" 52 VII. AS A FOUNTAIN IN THE DESERT 66 VIII. THE GONE-AWAY LADY 75 IX. THE CRIME OF DAVID 86 X. THE NIP OF GUILT 97 XI. APOTHEOSIS 104 XII. LIGHT 113 XIII. THE SUBSTITUTE 125 XIV. SKY BLOSSOMS 142 A MELODY IN SILVER CHAPTER I THE LOST CAUSE David had a suspicion. He did not know it was that, but that is what it was. He suspected that Mother thought he was a good little boy, and he suspected that she thought Mitchell Horrigan was a bad little boy. Perhaps Mother had a suspicion, too; she might have suspected that it was Mitch who had put a certain notion into David's head--a notion which had to do with pants. Only you must not call them pants; they are "trouvers." But it doesn't really matter in the least what they are called. Mitch had them. He also had the measles once. David did not know whether it was the measles
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