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 |
| I. | 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 IToC
THE LOST CAUSE
avid had a suspicion. He did not know it was that, but that iswhat it was. He suspected that Mother thought he was a goodlittle boy, and he suspected that she thought Mitchell Horriganwas a bad little boy. Perhaps Mother had a suspicion, too; shemight have suspected that it was Mitch who had put a certainnotion into David's head—a notion which had to do with pants.Only you must not call them pants;
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