A Novel of Modernistic Truth and
Intruding War

BY

ALLAN UPDEGRAFF

I didn't know Truth was such an invalid. How long is it since
she could only take the air in a closed carriage. . . ?

The Professor at the Breakfast Table

Half-engaged in the soil, pawing to get free, man needs all that
can be brought to disengage him. . . . If war . . . can
set his dull nerves throbbing, and by loud taps on the tough
chrysalis can break its walls and let the new creature emerge
erect and free,-make way and sing paean !-EMERSON

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1918

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With regret that he won't care for itat least not for some years.

CHAPTER

CONTENTS

I A Preamble-in the Course of Which a Mod-

ern Young Lady Arrives, Makes a Conquest,

and Starts to Climb a Mountain .

II Henry Meets a Person Who Reminds Him of

the Days When He was Fresh as a Cucum-

ber Picked in the Mornin'

III Some Mountains, a Valley, a Village, a View,

and a Very Flat Announcement

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IV During Which Several Confidences Are Placed

in an Appreciative Corner

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V Mr. Hooghtyling Endeavors to Apply Brakes

to the Truth, but Decides That, All Things

Considered, You Can't Tell from the Looks

of a Frog How Fur It'll Jump

VI Truth, After Much Knocking About, Is Wel-

comed by an Ultra-Modern Young Man-

Although Not, Perhaps, for Her Own Un-

adulterated Sake

VII A Detail, Founded on an Old Romance, Mod-

ernized and Improved by Miss Clotilde

Hooghtyling

VIII A Poor Invalid, Lured Once More from Her

Closed Carriage, Is Crushed to Earth, Bun-

dled in Again, and Sent Packing by Ethel .

IX Cy Wetmore Gave a Party, and All the Bucks

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