Category: Novels
A RISING STAR. Chapter. Pages I—“Young Lochinvar has Come out of the West,” 5–23 II—The Drift of a Day in New York City, 24–43 III—A Frank Disclosure, 44–67 IV—“Wyman and Vreeland” Swing the Street, 68–88 V—Toward the Zenith, 89–110
A RISING STAR. Chapter. Pages I—“Young Lochinvar has Come out of the West,” 5–23 II—The Drift of a Day in New York City, 24–43 III—A Frank Disclosure, 44–67 IV—“Wyman and Vreela...
2. BOOK II.VI—In the “Elmleaf” Bachelor Apartments, 111–131 VII—“Plunger” Vreeland’s Gay Life, “Under the Rose,” 132–151 VIII—Miss Romaine Garland, Stenographer, 152–170 IX—Senator Alynton...
3. BOOK III.XI—Miss Marble’s Waterloo! A Lost Lamb! Her Vacant Chair. Senator Garston’s Disclosure. Sara Conyers’ Mission. Miss Garland’s Dishonorable Discharge. A Defiance to the Death. “R...
4. CHAPTER I.There was an expression of sullen discontent upon the handsome features of Mr. Harold Vreeland (gentleman unattached), as the inbound Hudson River train dashed along under the c...
5. CHAPTER II.New York was astir once more, and the daily burden of life settled down again upon myriads of galled shoulders. The rumbling trains had rattled away the blue-bearded mechanic, t...
6. CHAPTER III.Hathorn returned, thoroughly hoodwinked, from the introductory evening spent at the Circassia. It had seemed strange to him that a leading general of the regular army, and a dap...
7. CHAPTER IV.Mr. Harold Vreeland was awake with the birds, and in an early morning walk long communed with himself under the whispering trees of Lakemere. The enchanting prospect of the supe...
8. CHAPTER V.It had been the one haunting dream of Harold Vreeland’s fevered young manhood to finally reach a financial position wherein “the solid ground” would not fail beneath his feet. B...
9. CHAPTER VI.Mr. Harold Vreeland silently wondered at the protean character of womanhood as he watched Mrs. Elaine Willoughby’s almost feverish gaiety in the few days which followed their ne...
10. CHAPTER VII.Before the February snows were congealed into those dirty flakes of ice and street mud which are an evidence of the “effectiveness” of New York’s Street Cleaning department, the...
11. CHAPTER VIII.It was late that night when the excited Vreeland left the Circassia and he was still somewhat in the dark as to the real object of his veiled employment. He reasoned justly that...
12. CHAPTER IX.Seated in his cozy morning room at the “Elmleaf,” Mr. Harold Vreeland was reflectively watching the snowflakes whirled by a March storm in fluffy white eddies, and furtively gaz...
13. CHAPTER X.Harold Vreeland was seated in a blaze of light, in his own rooms at four in the morning, anxiously awaiting a night visit from one who might unravel the whole mystery while the...
14. CHAPTER XI.In the two weeks after the successful affixing of those snake-like coils of wire which led the private messages of Mme. Elaine Willoughby into janitor Helms’ guarded private apa...
15. CHAPTER XII.The mistress of Lakemere was frozen into a forced calm as she keenly eyed Justine Duprez standing with open-eyed astonishment before the woman whose heart was still racked with...
16. CHAPTER XIII.It was a week later when two alert-minded men faced each other over a table in Senator James Garston’s private rooms at the Plaza Hotel. No single thread of the tangle had been...
17. CHAPTER XIV.The crowding passengers lounging on the decks of the “Campania” and “Normandie” idly watched the fleeting waves torn up by the ocean racers as they swept by each other in mid-oc...
18. CHAPTER XV.Senator David Alynton’s first duty on reaching the Hotel Belgravia was to hold a private conference with the confidential friend in whose rooms the Senator-elect had so strangel...