145
X THE BLUEJAY 172
XI A LITTLE GIRL GROWN UP 189
XII JOHN FLINT, GENTLEMAN 203
XIII "EACH IN HIS OWN COIN" 226
XIV THE WISHING CURL 258
XV IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT 283
XVI "WILL YOU WALK INTO MY PARLOR" 302
XVII "--SAID THE SPIDER TO THE FLY--" 319
XVIII ST. STANISLAUS CROOKS HIS ELBOW 343
XIX THE I O U OF SLIPPY McGEE 364
XX BETWEEN A BUTTERFLY'S WINGS 382

SLIPPY McGEE

CHARACTERS

FATHER ARMAND JEAN DE RANCE, Catholic Priest of Appleboro, South Carolina
MADAME DE RANCE, his Mother
CLELIE, their Servant
LAURENCE MAYNE, the Boy
MARY VIRGINIA EUSTIS, the Girl
JAMES EUSTIS, Man of the New South
MRS. EUSTIS, a Lady
DOCTOR WALTER WESTMORELAND, the Beloved Physician
JIM DABNEY, Editor of the Appleboro "Clarion"
MAJOR APPLEBY CARTWRIGHT }
MISS SALLY RUTH DEXTER } Neighbors
JUDGE HAMMOND MAYNE }
GEORGE INGLESBY, the Boss of Appleboro
J. HOWARD HUNTER, his Private Secretary
KERRY, an Irish Setter
PITACHE, the Parish House Dog
THE MOTHS AND BUTTERFLIES OF SOUTH CAROLINA
THE CHILDREN, THE MILL-HANDS, THE FACTORY FOLKS, and
SLIPPY MCGEE, sometimes known as the Butterfly Man

SLIPPY McGEE

CHAPTER I

APPLEBORO

"Now there was my cousin Eliza," Miss Sally Ruth Dexter once said to
me, "who was forced to make her home for thirty years in Vienna! She
married an attache of the Austrian legation, you know; met him while
she was visiting in Washington, and she was such a pretty girl and he
was such a charming man that they fell in love with each other and got
married. Afterward his family procured him a very influential post at
court, and of course poor Cousin Eliza had to stay there with him.
Dear mama often said she considered it a most touching proof of
woman's willingness to sacrifice herself--for there's no doubt it must
have been very hard on poor Cousin Eliza. She was born and raised
right here in Appleboro, you see."

Do not think that Miss Sally Ruth was anything but most transparently
sincere in thus sympathizing with the sad fate of poor Cousin Eliza,
who was born and