DOMINIE DEAN
Reading edition
A Novel
By Ellis Parker Butler
1917
Fleming And Revell Company
My Dear Mr. Dare:
That day when you came to my home and suggested that I write the book to which I now gratefully prefix this brief dedication, I little imagined how real David Dean would become to me. I have just written the last page of his story and I feel less that he is a creature of my imagination than that he is someone I have known and loved all my life.
It was because there are many such men as David Dean, big of heart and great in spirit, that you suggested the writing and helped me with incident and inspiration. Your hope was that the story might aid those who regret that such men as David Dean can be neglected and cast aside after lives spent in faithful service, and who are working to prevent such tragedies; my desire was to tell as truthfully as possible the story of one such man.
While I have had a free hand in developing the character of David Dean, I most gratefully acknowledge that the suggestion of the idea, and the inspiration, were yours, and I hope I have not misused them.
Most sincerely,
Ellis Parker Butler
Flushing, N. Y.
CONTENTS
I. 'THUSIA
II. MARY WIGGETT
III. THE COPPERHEAD
IV. ROSE HINCH
V. CHURCH TROUBLES
VI. THE BLACK PRUNELLA GAITERS
VII. MACK
VIII. THE GREATER GOOD
IX. LUCILLE HARDCOME
X. LUCILLE DISCOVERS DAVID
XI. STEVE TERRILL
XII. MONEY MATTERS
XIII. A SURPRISE
XIV. LUCILLE HELPS
XV. LANNY
XVI. AN INTERVIEW
XVII. LUCILLE TO THE RESCUE
XVIII. MR. FRAGG WORRIES
XIX. “BRIEFS”
XX. LANNY IS AWAY
XXI. A FAILURE
XXII. A TRAGEDY
XXIII. SCANDAL
XXIV. RESULTS
XXV. LUCILLE LOSES
XXVI. “OUR DAVID”
List of Illustrations
Mary
Copperhead
Rose