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The Siege of the Seven Suitors

The Siege of the Seven Suitors

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"Hezekiah"

"Hezekiah"




The Siege of
The Seven Suitors


BY

MEREDITH NICHOLSON

AUTHOR OF "THE HOUSE OF A THOUSAND CANDLES," ETC.


ILLUSTRATED BY C. COLES PHILLIPS
AND REGINALD BIRCH




BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1910




COPYRIGHT, 1910, BY MEREDITH NICHOLSON
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

Published October 1910




TO
THE HONORABLE THOMAS R. MARSHALL

MY DEAR GOVERNOR:—It was ordered by the franchises of destiny that you become the chief executive of a state in which the telling of tales brightened the hunter's camp-fire and cheered the lonely pioneer's cabin before our people learned the uses of ink; and the supreme fitness of this lies in the fact that you are yourself the best of story-tellers and entitled, for your excellence in this particular, as well as for weightier reasons, to sit at the head of the table in that commonwealth to which we are both bound by many and dear ties.

The morning brings to your mail-box so many demands, necessitating the most varied and delicate balancings and adjustments, that I serve you ill in adding to your burdens the little packet that contains this tale. Pray consider, however, that I have hidden it discreetly beneath a pile of documents touching nearly the state's business; or that I hastily serve it upon you in the highway, an unsanctioned writ from that high court of letters in which I am the least valiant among the bailiffs.

Sincerely yours,
    M. N.

MACKINAC ISLAND,
    August 10, 1910.




CONTENTS

I.   MY FRIEND WIGGINS IS INTRODUCED
II.   THE BEGINNING OF MY ADVENTURE
III.   I FALL INTO A BRIAR PATCH
IV.   WE DINE IN THE GUN-ROOM
V.   THE STRANGE BEHAVIOR OF A CHIMNEY
VI.   I DELIVER A MESSAGE
VII.   NINE SILK HATS CROSS A STILE
VIII.   CECILIA'S SILVER NOTE-BOOK
IX.   I MEET A PLAYFUL GHOST
X.   MY BEFUDDLEMENT INCREASES
XI.   I PLAY TRUANT
XII.   THE RIDDLE OF THE SIBYL'S LEAVES
XIII.   I DISCOVER TWO GHOSTS
XIV.   LADY'S SLIPPER
XV.   LOSS OF THE SILVER NOTE-BOOK
XVI.   JACK O' LANTERN
XVII.   SEVEN GOLD REEDS
XVIII.   TROUBLE AT THE PRESCOTT ARMS
XIX.   THE GHOST OF ADONIRAM CALDWELL
XX.   HEZEKIAH PARTITIONS THE KINGDOM




THE SIEGE OF THE SEVEN SUITORS


I

MY FRIEND WIGGINS IS INTRODUCED

I dined with Hartley Wiggins at the Hare and Tortoise on an evening in October, not very long ago. It may be well to explain that the Hare and Tortoise is the smallest and most select of clubs, whose windows afford a pleasant view of Gramercy Park. The club is comparatively young, and it is our joke that we are so far all tortoises, creeping through our several professions without aid from any hare.

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