Front matter
Reading edition
THE GOLDEN HOUR SERIES
A new series of books for young people, bound in extra cloth, with illuminated designs, illustrations, and title-pages made especially for each volume
A LITTLE DUSKY HERO. By Harriet T. Comstock.
THE CAXTON CLUB. By Amos R. Wells.
THE CHILD AND THE TREE. By Bessie Kenyon Ulrich.
DAISIES AND DIGGLESES. By Evelyn Raymond.
HOW THE TWINS CAPTURED A HESSIAN. By James Otis.
THE I CAN SCHOOL. By Eva A. Madden.
MASTER FRISKY. By Clarence W. Hawkes.
MISS DE PEYSTER’S BOY. By Etheldred B. Barry.
MOLLY. By Barbara Yechton.
THE WONDER SHIP. By Sophie Swett.
WHISPERING TONGUES. By Homer Greene.
PRICE PER VOLUME, NET, 50 CENTS
THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO. NEW YORK
“WILL YOU ALWAYS STRIVE TO UPHOLD THE DIGNITY OF OUR MOST NOBLE ORDER?”
WHISPERING TONGUES
BY
HOMER GREENE
New York Thomas Y. Crowell & Co. Publishers.
Copyright, 1902, By THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO.
TO
Prof. William Wells, LL.D.
KNOWN AND LOVED BY MANY GENERATIONS OF UNION COLLEGE STUDENTS AS “BILLY WELLS,” THIS LITTLE VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED
“Alas! they had been friends in youth; But whispering tongues can poison truth; And constancy lives in realms above; And life is thorny and youth is vain; And to be wroth with one we love Doth work like madness in the brain.”
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE.