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Title: The Lieutenant-Governor

Author: Guy Wetmore Carryl

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Language: English

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THE

LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR

A NOVEL

BY

GUY WETMORE CARRYL

[Illustration: Publishers symbol]

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN AND COMPANY
The Riverside Press, Cambridge
1903

Copyright, 1902
BY THE ESS ESS PUBLISHING CO.

Copyright, 1903
BY GUY WETMORE CARRYL

ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published March, 1903_

TO

M. R. B.

IN MEMORY OF THE RESCUE OF A MAN AT SEA

CONTENTS

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE FLY ON THE WHEEL 1

II. THE ODDS AGAINST YOUNG NISBET 21

III. A FACE IN THE CROWD 40

IV. AS BETWEEN FRIENDS 60

V. A BRAND FROM THE BURNING 80

VI. MCGRATH LAUGHS 98

VII. THE MIRAGE OF POWER 117

VIII. THE GOVERNOR UNMASKS 137

IX. THE NINTH PASSES IN REVIEW 156

X. A QUESTION AND AN ANSWER 177

XI. YOUNG NISBET FINDS HIS TONGUE 196

XII. DIOGENES 215

XIII. THE INSTRUMENT OF FATE 234

XIV. THE VOICE OF ALLEGHENIA 252

THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR

I

THE FLY ON THE WHEEL

The offices of the Governor and the Lieutenant-Governor adjoined. Each
had its ante-room, in which a private secretary wrote eternally at a
roll-top desk, an excessively plain-featured stenographer rattled the
keys of his typewriter, and a smug-faced page yawned over a newspaper,
or scanned the cards of v