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BEST LAID SCHEMES THE MAN IN THE STREET BLACKSHEEP! BLACKSHEEP! LADY LARKSPUR THE MADNESS OF MAY THE VALLEY OF DEMOCRACY
CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS
BEST LAID SCHEMES
BEST LAID SCHEMES
BY MEREDITH NICHOLSON
“The best laid schemes o’ mice and men Gang aft a-gley” —Robert Burns
NEW YORK CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS 1922
Copyright, 1919, 1922, by CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS Copyright, 1912, 1913, 1914 by THE CURTIS PUBLISHING CO. Copyright, 1916 by P. F. COLLIER & SON COMPANY Copyright, 1921 by THE McCLURE PUBLICATIONS Inc. Printed in the United States of America Published April, 1922
TO WILL H. HAYS WHOSE FRIENDSHIP IS MORE TO BE PRIZED THAN MUCH FINE GOLD