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Title: The Clarion

Author: Samuel Hopkins Adams

Illustrator: W. D. Stevens

Release Date: August 5, 2005 [EBook #16447]

Language: English

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[Illustration: "THEN IT'S ALL LIES! LIES AND MURDER!"]

THE CLARION

BY

SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS BY W.D. STEVENS

_Published October 1914_

TO THE MEMORY OF MY FATHER MYRON ADAMS WHO LIVED AND DIED A SOLDIER OF
IDEALS THIS BOOK IS REVERENTLY INSCRIBED

CONTENTS

I. THE ITINERANT

II. OUR LEADING CITIZEN

III. ESME

IV. THE SHOP

V. THE SCION

VI. LAUNCHED

VII. THE OWNER

VIII. A PARTNERSHIP

IX. GLIMMERINGS

X. IN THE WAY OF TRADE

XI. THE INITIATE

XII. THE THIN EDGE

XIII. NEW BLOOD

XIV. THE ROOKERIES

XV. JUGGERNAUT

XVI. THE STRATEGIST

XVII. REPRISALS

XVIII. MILLY

XIX. DONNYBROOK

XX. THE LESSER TEMPTING

XXI. THE POWER OF PRINT

XXII. PATRIOTS

XXIII. CREEPING FLAME

XXIV. A FAILURE IN TACTICS

XXV. STERN LOGIC

XXVI. THE PARTING

XXVII. THE GREATER TEMPTING

XXVIII. "WHOSE BREAD I EAT"

XXIX. CERTINA CHARLEY

XXX. ILLUMINATION

XXXI. THE VOICE OF THE PROPHET

XXXII. THE WARNING

XXXIII. THE GOOD FIGHT

XXXIV. VOX POPULI

XXXV. TEMPERED METAL

XXXVI. THE VICTORY

XXXVII. MCGUIRE ELLIS WAKES UP

XXXVIII. THE CONVERT

ILLUSTRATIONS

"THEN IT'S ALL LIES! LIES AND MURDER!"

HELP AND CURE ARE AT THEIR BECK AND CALL

"KILL IT," SHE URGED SOFTLY

"DON'T GO NEAR HIM. DON'T LOOK"

THE CLARION

CHAPTER I

THE ITINERANT

Between two flames the man stood, overlooking the crowd. A soft breeze,
playing about the torches, sent shadows billowing across the massed folk
on the ground. Shrewdly se