Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ILLUSTRATIONS The shambling old fellows were proceeding very slowly Frontispiece " But he's given you all the money straight enough," said Duggan 8 " But I'm only behind because I've been out of work," protested Duggan 16 " I think I'll keep it awhile myself," he said. . 24 William Morrison . . . was now serving his second term 37 A few of the old soldiers . . . looked after the little procession 50 " I guess it's another advertisement," he said. 60 The two moved to the front of the line. . . 81 As a child she had danced on the sidewalks. . 100 The first snow fell 119Page At the door she gave a backward look. . . . 132 The door of that wagon swung open. . . . 148 While the water surged against the stone retaining wall 159 Still she prayed, bowed before the altar. . . 179 " It is all a mistake—worse than a mistake." 191 " Yes, I was promoted! But I told General Sherman ! " 202 He . . . walked straight up to the girl. . 212 Their patriarchal faces half in shadow. . . 218 She peered between the iron bars of the fence. 230 Weidberg . . . slunk a little away from her 240 He took her hand and held it firmly in his. . 253 HOW TOOMEY WILLED HIS GOVERNMENT JOB " T BEING in sound mind and body, do 1, hereby resign my position in the Custom-house; and, being after dying, as I fully believe, and of sound mind and body as aforesaid, do hereby will my job, which I have held so long, to my good friend Dennis Duggan ; and I hope Michael McShea will agree to this, and I hereby ask him to give the job to Duggan, this being my last will." It was in broken sentences, for he was very weak, that old Toomey slowly dictated the document, and it was with evident pride in the composition. " You see how careful I am to put that in about being in so...