Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE UNFORGIVING OFFENDER

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JOHN REED SCOTT'S

Previous Fiction Successes

The First Hurdle and Others The Last Try In Her Own Right The Impostor The Woman in Question The Princess Dehra Beatrix of Clare The Colonel of the Red Huzzars

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THE UNFORGIVING OFFENDER

by

JOHN REED SCOTT

Author of "The Colonel of the Red Huzzars," "The Last Try," "The Woman in Question," "The First Hurdle," etc.

With Illustrations in Color by Clarence F. Underwood

Philadelphia and London J. B. Lippincott Company 1913

Copyright, 1913, by John Reed Scott

Published April, 1913

Printed by J. B. Lippincott Company at the Washington Square Press Philadelphia, U. S. A.

TO THE KNOCKERS WITH WHOM I USED TO LUNCH AT THE PITTSBURGH CLUB
THIS BOOK IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED BY THE ONE WHO NEVER KNOCKED

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I.--MONTAGUE PENDLETON AND SOME OTHERS 11

II.--THE RETURN OF THE OFFENDER 35

III.--THE VACILLATOR 50

IV.--A QUESTION OF FRIENDS 61

V.--THE CUT OF ONE'S CLOTHES 73

VI.--ON THE BRIDLE-PATH 92

VII.--AN OFFER AND AN ANSWER 112

VIII.--THE SUMMONS 124

IX.--HOPELESSNESS AND THREATS 142

X.--AT CRISS-CROSS 159

XI.--THE OVERTON MEADOW 173

XII.--A MATTER OF LIGHT 190

XIII.--THE UNPOPULAR GUEST 219

XIV.--NOBLESSE OBLIGE 250

XV.--IN THE CONSERVATORY 266

XVI.--THE UNANIMOUS OPINION 278

XVII.--DOLITTLE'S TALE 302

XVIII.--THE TRUTH BY PERSUASION 320

XIX.--THE ARREST 334

XX.--THE TURN OF THINGS 343

XXI.--OBSESSED 361

XXII.--THE SILVER CANDLESTICK 373

ILLUSTRATIONS

PAGE PENDLETON PUT HIS ARM THROUGH HIS BRIDLE-REIN AND CAME FORWARD _Frontispiece_

THE OFFENDER 62

THEY STOOD LEANING ON THE STONE BALUSTRADE 238

THE UNFORGIVING OFFENDER