The Price

The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Price, by Francis Lynde 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: The Price Author: Francis Lynde Release Date: October 4, 2006 [EBook #19462] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PRICE *** Produced by Sam Whitehead, Suzanne Shell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net Transcriber's note: Printing errors have been corrected throughout. A list of corrections is included at the end of this text. THE PRICE BY FRANCIS LYNDE COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS Published May, 1911 To MR. LATHROP BROCKWAY BULLENE SOLE FRIEND OF MY BOYHOOD, WHO WILL RECALL BETTER THAN ANY THE YOUTHFUL MORAL AND SOCIAL SEED-TIME WHICH HAS LED TO THIS LATER HARVESTING OF CONCLUSION, THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. AT CHAUDIÈRE'S 1 II. SPINDRIFT 9 III. THE RIGHT OF MIGHT 16 IV. IO TRIUMPHE! 26 V. THE BELLE JULIE 34 VI. THE DECK-HAND 44 VII. GOLD OF TOLOSA 53 VIII. THE CHAIN-GANG 59 IX. THE MIDDLE WATCH 68 X. QUICKSANDS 75 XI. THE ANARCHIST 84 XII. MOSES ICHTHYOPHAGUS 94 XIII. GRISWOLD EMERGENT 110 XIV. PHILISTIA 116 THE GOTHS AND XV. 126 VANDALS XVI. GOOD SAMARITANS 143 XVII. GROPINGS 154 XVIII. THE ZWEIBUND 165 XIX.