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THE MASTER OF SILENCE A ROMANCE

Fiction, Fact, and Fancy Series

Edited by Arthur Stedman

By Irving Bacheller

CONTENTS

THE MASTER OF SILENCE

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

CHAPTER XVII

THE LIGHT IN THE CLEARING

A Tale of the North Country in the Time of Silas Wright BY IRVING BACHELLER ILLUSTRATED BY ARTHUR I. KELLER. CONTENTS BOOK ONE WHICH IS THE STORY OF THE CANDLE AND COMPASS I The Melon Harvest II I Meet the Silent Woman and Silas Wright, Jr III We Go to Meeting and See Mr. Wright Again IV Our Little Strange Companion V In the Light of the Candles VI The Great Stranger VII My Second Peril VIII My Third Peril

BOOK TWO WHICH IS THE STORY OF THE PRINCIPAL WITNESS IX In Which I Meet Other Great Men X I Meet President Van Buren and Am Cross-Examined by Mr. Grimshaw XI A Party and—My Fourth Peril? XII The Spirit of Michael Henry and Others XIII The Thing and Other Things XIV The Bolt Falls

BOOK THREE WHICH IS THE STORY OF THE CHOSEN WAYS XV Uncle Peabody's Way and Mine XVI I Use My Own Compass at a Fork in the Road XVII The Man with the Scythe XVIII I Start in a Long Way XIX On the Summit Epilogue

IN THE DAYS OF POOR RICHARD

By IRVING BACHELLER

ILLUSTRATED BY JOHN WOLCOTT ADAMS

1922

CONTENTS CHAPTER BOOK ONE I The Horse Valley Adventure II Sowing the Dragon's Teeth III The Journey to Philadelphia IV The Crossing V Jack Sees London and the Great Philosopher VI The Lovers VII The Dawn VIII An Appointment and a Challenge IX The Encounter X The Lady of the Hidden Face XI The Departure XII The Friend and the Girl He Left Behind Him

BOOK TWO XIII The Ferment XIV Adventures in the Service of the Commander-in-Chief XV In Boston Jail XVI Jack and Solomon Meet the Great Ally XVII With the Army and in the Bush XVIII How Solomon Shifted the Skeer XIX The Voice of a Woman Sobbing XX The First Fourth of July XXI The Ambush XXII The Binkussing of Colonel Burley XXIII The Greatest Trait of a Great Commander

BOOK THREE XXIV In France with Franklin XXV The Pageant XXVI In Which Appears the Horse of Destiny and the Judas of Washington's Army XXVII Which Contains the Adventures of Solomon in the Timber Sack and on the "Hand-made River" XXVIII In Which Arnold and Henry Thornhill Arrive in the Highlands XXIX Love and Treason XXX "Who Is She that Looketh Forth as the Morning, Fair as the Moon, Clear as the Sun, and Terrible as an Army with Banners?" XXXI The Lovers and Solomon's Last Fight

List of Illustrations A young John Irons and Margaret Hare in the forest "The soldiers are slaying people," a man shouted. Jack Irons and Solomon Binkus with General George Washington. Solomon Binkus with Whig Scott on his shoulder. Ben Franklin Ben Franklin, surrounded by his grandchildren.

A MAN FOR THE AGES By IRVING BACHELLER A STORY OF THE BUILDERS OF DEMOCRACY 1919 CONTENTS

A Letter

BOOK ONE

CHAPTER I--Which Describes the Journey of Samson Henry Traylor and His Wife and Their Two Children and Their Dog Sambo through the Adirondack Wilderness in 1831 on Their Way to the Land of Plenty, and Especially Their Adventures in Bear Valley and No Santa Claus Land. Furthermore, It Describes the Soaping of the Brimsteads and the Capture of the Veiled Bear

CHAPTER II--Wherein Is Recorded the Vivid Impression Made upon the Travelers by Their View of a Steam Engine and of the Famous Erie Canal. Wherein, Also, Is a Brief Account of Sundry Curious Characters Met on the Road and at a Celebration of the Fourth of July on the Big Waterway

CHAPTER III--Wherein the Reader Is Introduced to Offut's Store and His Clerk Abe, and the Scholar Jack Kelso and His Cabin and His Daughter Bim, and Gets a First Look at Lincoln

CHAPTER IV--Which Presents Other Log Cabin Folk and the First Steps in the Making of a New Home and Certain Incapacities of Abe

CHAPTER V--In Which the Character of Bim Kelso Flashes Out in a Strange Adventure that Begins the Weaving of a Long Thread of Romance

CHAPTER VI--Which Describes the Lonely Life in a Prairie Cabin and a Stirring Adventure on the Underground Railroad about the Time It Beganx Operations

CHAPTER VII--In Which Mr. Eliphalet Biggs Gets Acquainted with Bim Kelso and Her Father

CHAPTER VIII--Wherein Abe Makes Sundry Wise Remarks to the Boy Harry and Announces His Purpose to Be a Candidate for the Legislature at Kelso's Dinner Party

CHAPTER IX--In Which Bim Kelso Makes History, While Abe and Harry and Other Good Citizens of New Salem Are Making an Effort to that End in the Indian War

BOOK TWO

CHAPTER X--In Which Abe and Samson Wrestle and Some Raiders Come to Burn and Stay to Repent

CHAPTER XI--In Which Abe, Elected to the Legislature, Gives What Comfort He Can to Ann Rutledge in the Beginning of Her Sorrows. Also He Goes to Springfield for New Clothes and Is Astonished by Its Pomp and the Change in Eli

CHAPTER XII--Which Continues the Romance of Abe and Ann until the Former Leaves New Salem to Begin His Work in the Legislature. Also It Describes the Coloneling of Peter Lukins

CHAPTER XIII--Wherein the Route of the Underground Railroad Is Surveyed and Samson and Harry Spend a Night in the Home of Henry Brimstead and Hear Surprising Revelations, Confidentially Disclosed, and Are Charmed by the Personality of His Daughter Annabel