“This is a great pleasure to see you again.”
ARNOLD’S
TEMPTER
By
Benjamin F. Comfort
THE C. M. CLARK PUBLISHING CO.
Boston, Massachusetts
1908
Copyright, 1908
BY
The C. M. Clark Publishing Co.
Boston, Massachusetts
U. S. A.
All Rights Reserved
Dedicated to
My Wife
A. C. C.
ILLUSTRATIONS
| Frontispiece, “This is a great pleasure to see you again” | |
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| Mollie Greydon | 34 |
| Two girls were seeking wild strawberries on the banksof the Wingohocking | 148 |
| “Have we the pleasure of the gentleman’s name andoccupation?” quizzed the old man | 178 |
| Barclugh simply sat back and laughed till he was tiredout | 222 |
| Captain Risk engaged two seamen, cutlass in one handand pistol in the other | 275 |
| She noticed how longingly he watched her depart | 333 |
| Mollie put down her needle-work and ran to meet her | 360 |
Roderick Barclugh was invited to dine withthe FitzMaurices and Benedict Arnold was tomeet him.
The arrival in Philadelphia of a gentleman withcredentials from Dr. Franklin to the Secretary ofCongress, who had much influence with the FrenchCourt, and who had bills of exchange for twentythousand pounds sterling created stirring commentamong the fashionables. He was to meet withoutdelay the choice spirits on the inside of Philadelphia’saristocratical party.
Robert FitzMaurice’s mansion, to which hadbeen made great additions, to suit the tastes ofthe new proprietor, was an old Colonial landmark.The ambition of this merchant princeand financier had ever been to establish his familyand his fortunes under the English system ofaristocracy, upon such a grand scale of magnificencethat he could claim all the blandishments of acrest and a title which, of course, belong to aperson of substance.