Front matter
Reading edition
Author of The Prodigal Judge. The Just and The Unjust. The Fortunes of The Landrays, Etc.
With Portrait, And a Sketch of The Author by Paul Kester
Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company Publishers
1913






Acknowledgments are due to Short Stories, Munsey's Magazine, The Century Magazine, The Bellman and The American Magazine for permission to reprint certain stories included in this volume.
CONTENTS
VAUGHAN KESTER
THE HAND OF THE MIGHTY
THE BAD MAN OF LAS VEGAS
MOLLIE DARLING
THE BLOOD OF HIS ANCESTORS
WHEN WE HAVE WAITED
THE DESERTER
WHAT REARTON SAW
HOW MR. RATHBURN WAS BROUGHT IN
MISS CAXTON'. FATHER
THE HALF-BREED
WILLIE
MR. FEENY'. SOCIAL EXPERIMENT
ALL THAT A MAN HATH