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THE REAL ISSUE THE COURT OF BOYVILLE STRATAGEMS AND SPOILS IN OUR TOWN A CERTAIN RICH MAN THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH GOD’S PUPPETS THE MARTIAL ADVENTURES OF HENRY AND ME IN THE HEART OF A FOOL

IN THE HEART OF A FOOL

BY

WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

Author of “In Our Town,” “A Certain Rich Man,” “The Martial Adventures of Henry and Me,” etc.

New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1918

All rights reserved

COPYRIGHT, 1918 BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY

Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1918.

CONTENTS

CHAPTERPAGE

IBeing Stage Directions, and a Cast of Characters.1

IIIn Which We Introduce the Fool and His Lady Fair, and What He Said in His Heart–the Same Being the Theme and Thesis of This Story4

IIIIn Which We Consider the Ladies–God Bless ’Em!21

IVThe Adams Family Bible Lies Like a Gentleman38

VIn Which Margaret Müller Dwells in Marble Halls and Henry Fenn and Kenyon Adams Win Notable Victories47

VIEnter the Beauty and Chivalry of Harvey; Also Herein We Break Our Finest Heart63

VIIIn Which We See How Life Translates Itself Into the Materialism Around It69

VIIICaptain Morton Acts As Court Herald and Morty Sands and Grant Adams Hear Sad News80

IXWherein Henry Fenn Tries an Interesting Experiment89

XIn Which Mary Adams Takes a Much Needed Rest98

XIWherein a Fool Gropes for a Spirit and Can Find Only Dust103

XIIIn Which We Learn That Love Is the Lever That Moves the World114

XIIIIn Which We Observe the Interior of a Deserted House126

XIVIn Which Our Hero Strolls out With the Devil to Look at the High Mountain135

XVWherein We Welcome in a New Year and Consider a Serious Question152

XVIGrant Adams Is Sold Into Bondage and Margaret Fenn Receives a Shock163

XVIIA Chapter Which Introduces Some Possible Gods180

XVIIIOur Hero Rides to Hounds With the Primrose Hunt187

XIXHerein Captain Morton Falls Under Suspicion and Henry Fenn Falls from Grace200

XXIn Which Henry Fenn Falls from Grace and Rises Again209

XXIIn Which We See a Fat Little Rascal on the Rack219

XXIIIn Which Tom Van Dorn Becomes a Wayfaring Man Also232

XXIIIHere Grant Adams Discovers His Insides241

XXIVIn Which the Devil Formally Takes the Two Hindermost and Closes an Account in His Ledger252

XXVIn Which We See Two Temples and the Contents Thereof264

XXVIDr. Nesbit Starts on a Long Upward but Devious Journey277

XXVIIIn Which We See Something Come Into This Story Outside of the Material World288

XXVIIIWherein Morty Sands Makes a Few Sensible Remarks in Public298

XXIXBeing Not a Chapter but an Interlude309

XXXGrant Adams Preaching a Message of Love Raises the Very Devil in Harvey320

XXXIIn Which Judge Van Dorn Makes His Brags and Dr. Nesbit Sees a Vision337

XXXIIWherein Violet Hogan Takes up an Old Trade and Margaret Van Dorn Seeks a Higher Plane350

XXXIIIIn Which the Angels Shake a Foot for Henry Fenn365

XXXIVA Short Chapter, Yet in It We Examine One Canvas Heaven, One Real Heaven, and Two Snug Little Hells379

XXXVThe Old Spider Begins to Divide His Flies With Others and George Brotherton Is Puzzled Twice in One Night388

XXXVIA Long Chapter but a Busy One, in Which Kenyon Adams and His Mother Have a Strange Meeting, and Lila Van Dorn Takes a Night Ride403

XXXVIIIn Which We Witness a Ceremony in the Temple of Love423

XXXVIIIGrant Adams Visits the Sons of Esau431

XXXIXBeing No Chapter at All but an Intermezzo Before the Last Movement441

XLHere We Have the Fellow and the Girl Beginning to Prepare for the Last Chapter444

XLIHere We See Grant Adams Conquering His Third and Last Devil454

XLIIA Chapter Which Is Concerned Largely With the Love Affairs of “The Full Strength of the Company”468

XLIIIWherein We Find Grant Adams Calling Upon Kenyon’s Mother, and Darkness Falls Upon Two Lovers496

XLIVIn Which We Suffer Little Children, With George Brotherton, and in General Consider the Habitants of the Kingdom515

XLVIn Which Lida Bowman Considers Her Universe and Tom Van Dorn Wins Another Victory527

XLVIWherein Grant Adams Preaches Peace and Lida Bowman Speaks Her Mind543

XLVIIIn Which Grant Adams and Laura Van Dorn Take a Walk Down Market Street and Mrs. Nesbit Acquires a Long Lost Grandson-In-Law561

XLVIIIWherein We Erect a House Built Upon a Rock575

XLIXHow Morty Sands Turned Away Sadly and Judge Van Dorn Uncovered a Secret582

LJudge Van Dorn Sings Some Merry Songs and They Take Grant Adams Behind a White Door597

LIIn Which We End As We Began and All Live Happily Ever After609

LIINot Exactly a Chapter but Rather a Q. E. D. or a Hic Fabula Docet613

IN THE HEART OF A FOOL