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Title: Andrew the Glad

Author: Maria Thompson Daviess

Release Date: October 9, 2004 [EBook #13679]

Language: English

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Andrew the Glad

By MARIA THOMPSON DAVIESS

Author of Miss Selina Lue, Rose of Old Harpeth The Melting of Molly, etc.

1913

TO LIBBIE LUTTRELL MORROW

CONTENTS

CHAPTER

I THE HEART TRAP

II THE RITUAL

III TWO LITTLE CRIMES

IV ACCORDING TO SOLOMON

V DAVID'S ROSE AND SOME THORNS

VI THE BRIDGE OF DREAMS

VII STRANGE WILD THINGS

VIII THE SPELL AND ITS WEAVING

IX PURSUING THE POSSUM

X LOVE'S HOME AND ANDREW SEVIER

XI ACROSS THE MANY WATERS

ANDREW THE GLAD

CHAPTER I

THE HEART TRAP

"There are some women who will brew mystery from the decoction of
even a very simple life. Matilda is one of them," remarked the major to
himself as he filled his pipe and settled himself before his high-piled,
violet-flamed logs. "It was waxing strong in her this morning and an
excitement will arrive shortly. Now I wonder--"

"Howdy, Major," came in a mockingly lugubrious voice from the hall, and
David Kildare blew into the room. He looked disappointedly around,
dropped into a chair and lowered his voice another note.

"Seen Phoebe?" he demanded.

"No, haven't you?" answered the major as he lighted his pipe and regarded
the man opposite him with a large smile of welcome.

"Not for three days, hand-running. She's been over to see Andy with Mrs.
Matilda twice, and I've missed her both times. Now, how's that for luck?"

"Well," said the major reflectively, "in the terms of modern parlance,
you certainly are up against it. And did it ever occur to you that a man
with three ribs broken and a dislocated collar-bone, who has written a
play and a sprinkle of poems, is likely to interest Phoebe D