Category: Novels

The Bread Line: A Story of a Paper

In the main it is the story of four--two artists and two writers--and of a paper which these four started. Three of them--the artists and one of the writers--toiled and dwelt together in rooms near Union Square, and earned a good deal of money sometimes, when matters went well...

Chapters

1. Part 1

In the main it is the story of four--two artists and two writers--and of a paper which these four started. Three of them--the artists and one of the writers--toiled and dwelt to...

2. Part 2

He ran the items over glibly and pushed the paper across the table for each to examine in turn. The figures were beautifully made, and seemed to add correctly. If there were a f...

3. Part 3

"That caught him right away," continued Barrifield, regardless of this interruption. "He said he wanted to get started with a new thing like ours, and that he was going to let u...

4. Part 4

"Of course you know, fellows," he said, with an air of profound reflection, "that this plan is going to take a little more money. It involves sending out a large number of sampl...

5. Part 5

As to the latter contingent, Van Dorn and Livingstone relieved him somewhat, and rather enjoyed doing so. It was in the nature of a diversion to them to listen to these wordy em...

6. Part 6

"And now, Dorry dear, I tried to write you all the news, as you wanted me to, and I haven't told you once in all these pages that I love you. I do, though, Dorry, and it breaks...

7. Part 7

"You see, True, I think a good deal about all these things, and I realized even from the first that a nature like yours is not at all suited to hard and shrewd commercial enterp...

8. Part 8

Perner's old manner--the manner in which he had set forth the scheme on the night of the golden dinner--had returned to him. It had returned, but with a difference: then he had...

9. Part 9

"I never realized what riches were until I had them,--I mean until I thought I had them, which was the same thing while it lasted,--nor what poverty meant. And Perny says so, to...