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The Project Gutenberg EBook of Once to Every Man, by Larry Evans This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Once to Every Man Author: Larry Evans Illustrator: Anton Otto Fischer Release Date: August 9, 2009 [EBook #29646] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK ONCE TO EVERY MAN *** Produced by Roger Frank and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net [Illustration: "IT WAS FOR ME--YOU WENT. DON'T YOU--DIDN'T YOU KNOW IT WAS--JUST BECAUSE OF YOU--THAT I WANTED THEM--AT--ALL?"] ONCE TO EVERY MAN BY LARRY EVANS ILLUSTRATED BY ANTON OTTO FISCHER GROSSET & DUNLAP PUBLISHERS :: NEW YORK Copyright, 1913, by The Metropolitan Magazine Company. Copyright, 1914, by The Metropolitan Magazine Company. Copyright, 1914, by The H. K. Fly Company. TO MINE OWN PEOPLE ILLUSTRATIONS "It Was for Me--You Went. Don't You--Didn't You Know It Was--Just Because of You--That I Wanted Them--At--All?" _Frontispiece_ "Hold Me Tight--Oh! Hold Me Tighter! for They Forgot Me, Too, Denny; They Forgot Me Too!" 53 "Dryad, It's All Right--It's Always Been All Right--With Us! They Lied--They Lied and They Knew They Were Lying!" 85 "What You Need, Gentlemen, Is a Trifle Wider Readin'--Just a Trifle! for You Ain't Bein' Well Posted on Facts!" 149 ONCE TO EVERY MAN CHAPTER I The most remarkable thing about the boy was his eyes--that is, if any man with his spread of shoulder and masculine grace of flat muscled hips could be spoken of any longer as a boy, merely because his years happened to number twenty-four. They, however--the eyes--were gray; not a too light, off-color, gleaming gray, but more the tone of slate, deep when one chanced to find oneself peering deep into them. And they were old. Any spontaneity of youth which might have flashed from them at one time had faded entirely and left a sort of wistful sophistry behind, an almost plaintive hunger which made the pity
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