Chapter I: Front Matter

_The
Thirteenth Man_

By

MRS. COULSON KERNAHAN

_Author of
“Under Seal of the Confessional,” “The Gate of Sinners,”
“The Fraud,” “Trewinnot of Guy’s,”
“An Artist’s Model,” etc., etc._

G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY

PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY

G. W. DILLINGHAM COMPANY

THE THIRTEENTH MAN

TO

MISS M. BETHAM-EDWARDS

Whom all the world admires as poet, novelist and essayist, and all who know her personally love and reverence as true woman and dear friend.

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I.--WHICH INTRODUCES A YOUNG AUTHOR 7

II.--A CONFESSION 13

III.--AN ALARMING SUGGESTION 20

IV.--A COMPLICATION 27

V.--A WOMAN’S HONOR 34

VI.--THE THIRTEENTH MAN 41

VII.--THE PRISONER 48

VIII.--THE KISS 55

IX.--PHYLLIS THROWS A BOMB 61

X.--FOR A SON’S SAKE 67

XI.--A RAY OF HOPE 73

XII.--THE MYSTERY OF THE LITTLE WOOD 79

XIII.--A JUDGMENT BY APPEARANCES 84

XIV.--“AND WHAT A NOBLE PLOT WAS CROSSED” 91

XV.--“STRONG IN WAR, BUT WEAK IN LOVE” 97

XVI.--THE BIRTH OF A SOUL 103

XVII.--WHAT A DOG’S LEASH PREVENTED 110

XVIII.--PHILIP SITS IN JUDGMENT 118

XIX.--COLONEL LANE GOES OFF GUARD 123

XX.--“SO NEAR, AND YET SO FAR!” 131

XXI.--TWO MEN DISCUSS A WOMAN 140

XXII.--ALVIN TRIES ARTFULLY TO BRING OLD LOVERS TOGETHER 147

XXIII.--THE LETTER 154

XXIV.--WORSE COMPLICATIONS 161

XXV.--PHYLLIS THE MARTYR! 166

XXVI.--“DRAT LOVE AFFAIRS!” SAID MRS. PICKETT 174

XXVII.--A HALF-CONFIDENCE 181

XXVIII.--THE PROBLEM OF EWERETTA’S MIND 189

XXIX.--“A DANIEL INDEED!” 195

XXX.--SUCH IS LOVE 202

XXXI.--THE COLONEL GOES AGAIN “ON DUTY” 208

XXXII.--UNCLE ROBERT IS EFFECTIVELY DAMPED 216

XXXIII.--DAMNING EVIDENCE 224

XXXIV.--THE FLIGHT OF PHYLLIS 231

XXXV.--PHILIP TAKES DRASTIC MEASURES 237

XXXVI.--COLONEL LANE APOLOGIZES 243

XXXVII.--THE HAND OF FATE 251

XXXVIII.--IN THE DEPTHS OF DESPAIR 258

XXXIX.--A SUPERNATURAL HAPPENING 266

XL.--MOTHER AND SON 273

XLI.--A TESTIMONIAL TO MISS LINKIN 278

XLII.--HOW REPUTATIONS ARE RUINED 286

XLIII.--A MIRACULOUS MEDICINE 292

XLIV.--HOW AN EDITION OF “WINGS AND WINDS” WAS SOLD 298

XLV.--HOW A SCANDAL-MONGER WAS SERVED 303

XLVI.--THE MYSTERY OF THE LITTLE WOOD REVEALED AT LAST 308

XLVII.--THE LAST 315

THE THIRTEENTH MAN