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Title: What's-His-Name

Author: George Barr McCutcheon

Illustrator: Harrison Fisher

Release Date: April 6, 2009 [EBook #28512]

Language: English

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[Illustration: Copyright, 1911, by Dodd, Mead & Company
Nellie Duluth]

What's-His-Name

BY

GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY

HARRISON FISHER

NEW YORK

GROSSET & DUNLAP

PUBLISHERS

Copyright, 1910, 1911

BY

GEORGE BARR McCUTCHEON

Published March, 1911

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE
I. Our Hero 1
II. Miss Nellie Duluth 31
III. Mr. Fairfax 71
IV. Luncheon 95
V. Christmas 124
VI. The Revolver 150
VII. The Lawyer 176
VIII. Blakeville 201

ILLUSTRATIONS

Nellie Duluth Frontispiece

Fairfax was sitting on a trunk, a satisfied
smile on his lips 67

Phoebe 134

He stopped, aghast, petrified 238

WHAT'S-HIS-NAME

CHAPTER I

OUR HERO

Two men were standing in front of the Empire Theatre on Broadway, at
the outer edge of the sidewalk, amiably discussing themselves in the
first person singular. It was late in September and somewhat early in
the day for actors to be abroad, a circumstance which invites
speculation. Attention to their conversation, which was marked by the
habitual humility, would have convinced the l