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Title: The Good Comrade

Author: Una L. Silberrad

Illustrator: Anna Whelan Betts

Release Date: March 27, 2006 [EBook #18060]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "'Tell me,' she said, 'did you ever really do anything
foolish in your life?'"]

The Good Comrade

By

UNA L. SILBERRAD

Illustrated by
Anna Whelan Betts

New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1907

COPYRIGHT, 1907, BY DOUBLEDAY PAGE & COMPANY
PUBLISHED, SEPTEMBER, 1907

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I. THE POLKINGTONS

II. THE DEBT

III. NARCISSUS TRIANDRUS AZUREUM

IV. THE OWNER OF THE BLUE DAFFODIL

V. THE EXCURSION

VI. DEBTOR AND CREDITOR

VII. HOW JULIA DID NOT GET THE BLUE DAFFODIL

VIII. POOFERCHJES AND JEALOUSY

IX. THE HOLIDAY

X. TO-MORROW

XI. A REPRIEVE

XII. THE YOUNG COOK

XIII. THE HEIRESS

XIV. THE END OF THE CAMPAIGN

XV. THE GOOD COMRADE

XVI. THE SIMPLE LIFE

XVII. NARCISSUS TRIANDRUS STRIATUM, THE GOOD COMRADE

XVIII. BEHIND THE CHOPPING-BLOCK

XIX. CAPTAIN POLKINGTON

XX. THE BENEFACTOR

XXI. THE GOING OF THE GOOD COMRADE

XXII. THE LINE OF LEAST RESISTANCE

XXIII. PAYMENT AND RECEIPT

ILLUSTRATIONS

"'Tell me,' she said, 'did you ever
really do anything foolish in your
life?'" Frontispiece

"Julia"

"A wonderful woman"

"'Now you must call your flower a
name,' he said"

THE GOOD COMRADE

CHAPTER I

THE POLKINGTONS

The Polkingtons were of those people who do not dine. They lunched,
though few besides Johnny Gillat, who did not count, had been inv