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THE WALKING DELEGATE
THE WALKING DELEGATE
The Walking Delegate
By
Leroy Scott
With Frontispiece
New York Doubleday, Page & Company 1905
Copyright, 1905, by Doubleday, Page & Company Published May, 1905
All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign languages, including the Scandinavian
To My Wife
CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I. On the St. Etienne Hotel 3
II. The Walking Delegate 14
III. The Rise of Buck Foley 30
IV. A Council of War 9
V. Tom Seeks Help from the Enemy 50
VI. In which Foley Plays with Two Mice 59
VII. Getting the Men in Line 72
VIII. The Coward 85
IX. Ruth Arnold 98
X. Last Days of the Campaign 111
XI. In Foley's "Office" 120
XII. The Election 129
XIII. The Day After 145
XIV. New Courage and New Plans 153
XV. Mr. Baxter Has a Few Conferences 166
XVI. Blows 177
XVII. The Entertainment Committee 187
XVIII. The Stolen Strike 203
XIX. Foley Tastes Revenge 210
XX. Tom Has a Caller 224
XXI. What Might Have Been 236
XXII. The Progress of the Strike 250
XXIII. The Triumph of Business Sense 257
XXIV. Business is Business 267
XXV. In which Foley Bows to Defeat 279
XXVI. Petersen's Sin 290
XXVII. The Thousandth Chance 304
XXVIII. The Exposure 313
XXIX. In which Mr. Baxter Shows Himself a Man of Resources 331
XXX. The Last of Buck Foley 338
XXXI. Tom's Levee 348
XXXII. The Thorn of the Rose 364
LIST OF CHARACTERS
Buck Foley, a walking delegate.
Tom Keating, a foreman.
Maggie Keating, his wife.
Mr. Baxter, President of Iron Employers' Ass'n.
Mrs. Baxter.
Mr. Driscoll, a contractor.
Ruth Arnold, his secretary.
Mr. Berman, junior partner of Mr. Driscoll.
Mr. Murphy, a contractor.
Mr. Bobbs, a contractor.
Mr. Isaacs, a contractor.
Connelly, Secretary of Iron Workers' Union.
Nels Petersen, a "scab."
Anna Petersen, his wife.
Pig Iron Pete, a workman
Johnson, a workman.
Barry, a workman.
Mrs. Barry.
Jake Henderson
Arkansas Number Two Members of
Kaffir Bill "The Entertainment
Smokey Committee."
Hickey
THE WALKING DELEGATE