White Ashes

The Project Gutenberg eBook, White Ashes, by Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. NobleThis 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 atwww.gutenberg.orgTitle: White AshesAuthor: Sidney R. Kennedy and Alden C. NobleRelease Date: January 7, 2007 [eBook #20308]Language: English***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK WHITE ASHES***E-text prepared by Al HainesWHITE ASHESbyKENNEDY-NOBLE[Transcriber's note: Full names—Sidney R. Kennedy, Alden C. Noble.]New YorkThe MacMillan Company1912All rights reservedCopyright, 1912,by The MacMillan Company.Set up and electrotyped. Published April, 1912.TONATALIE STANTON KENNEDYTHIS BOOKIS INSCRIBED BY THE AUTHORSSIDNEY R. KENNEDYALDEN C. NOBLEWHITE ASHESCHAPTER IOn the top floor of one of the lesser office buildings in the insurance district of lower New York, a man stood silent beforea map desk on which was laid an opened map of the burned city. No other man was in the office, for this was on aSunday; but it would not have mattered to the man at the map had the big room presented its usual busy appearance. Allthat went on about him would have passed his notice; he only gazed stolidly from the map to the newspaper with flaringheadlines, and from newspaper back to map, trying to gauge the measure of his calamity.The morning papers had ...