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Title: A Melody in Silver

Author: Keene Abbott

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Language: English

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A MELODY IN SILVER

By KEENE ABBOTT

BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
The Riverside Press Cambridge
1911

COPYRIGHT, 1911, BY KEENE ABBOTT
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED

_Published April 1911_

CONTENTS

I. THE LOST CAUSE 1

II. RUE AND ROSEMARY 14

III. THE WORLD'S END 20

IV. DEAD SEA FRUIT 30

V. THE MUG OF WOE 43

VI. "FAV-VER" 52

VII. AS A FOUNTAIN IN THE DESERT 66

VIII. THE GONE-AWAY LADY 75

IX. THE CRIME OF DAVID 86

X. THE NIP OF GUILT 97

XI. APOTHEOSIS 104

XII. LIGHT 113

XIII. THE SUBSTITUTE 125

XIV. SKY BLOSSOMS 142

A MELODY IN SILVER

CHAPTER I

THE LOST CAUSE

David had a suspicion. He did not know it was that, but that is
what it was. He suspected that Mother thought he was a good
little boy, and he suspected that she thought Mitchell Horrigan
was a bad little boy. Perhaps Mother had a suspicion, too; she
might have suspected that it was Mitch who had put a certain
notion into David's head--a notion which had to do with pants.
Only you must not call them pants; they are "trouvers."

But it doesn't really matter in the least what they are called.
Mitch had them. He also had the measles once. David did not know
whether it was the measles