Left End Edwards
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Barbour Ralph Henry. Left End Edwards
CHAPTER I. FATHERS AND SONS
CHAPTER II. OFF TO SCHOOL
CHAPTER III. STOP THIEF!
CHAPTER IV. OUT FOR BRIMFIELD!
CHAPTER V. NUMBER 12 BILLINGS
CHAPTER VI. CLUES!
CHAPTER VII. THE CONFIDENCE-MAN
CHAPTER VIII. IN THE RUBBING ROOM
CHAPTER IX. BACK IN TOGS
CHAPTER X "CHEAP FOR CASH"
CHAPTER XI "HOLD 'EM, THIRD!"
CHAPTER XII. CANTERBURY ROMPS ON—AND OFF
CHAPTER XIII. SAWYER VOWS VENGEANCE
CHAPTER XIV. A LESSON IN TACKLING
CHAPTER XV. STEVE WINNOWS SOME CHAFF
CHAPTER XVI. MR. DALEY IS OUT
CHAPTER XVII. THE BLUE-BOOK
CHAPTER XVIII. B PLUS AND D MINUS
CHAPTER XIX. THE SECOND PUTS IT OVER
CHAPTER XX. BLOWS ARE STRUCK
CHAPTER XXI. FRIENDS FALL OUT
CHAPTER XXII. STEVE GETS A SURPRISE
CHAPTER XXIII. DURKIN SHEDS LIGHT
CHAPTER XXIV. THE DAY BEFORE THE BATTLE
CHAPTER XXV. TOM TO THE RESCUE
CHAPTER XXVI. AT THE END OF THE FIRST HALF
CHAPTER XXVII. STEVE SMILES
CHAPTER XXVIII. THE CHUMS READ A TELEGRAM
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Possibly you are wondering why two boys, each of whom was possessed of a perfectly good home of his own, should select the Tannersville Public Library as a place in which to converse. The answer is that Steve's father and Tom's father were in the same line of trade, wholesale lumber, and had a few years before fallen out over some business matter. Since that time the two men had been at daggers drawn during office hours and only coldly civil at other times. Steve was forbidden to set foot in Tom's house and Tom was as strictly prohibited from entering Steve's. Had the fathers had their way at the beginning of the quarrel the boys would have ceased then and there to have anything to do with each other. But they had been close friends ever since primary school days and, while they reluctantly respected the dictum as to visiting at each other's residences, they had firmly refused to give up the friendship, and their fathers had finally been forced to sanction what they could not prevent.
At the time this story opens, the quarrel between the two men, each a prominent and well-to-do member of the community, still continued, but its edge had been dulled by time. Both Mr. Edwards and Mr. Hall took active parts in municipal affairs and so were forced to meet often and to even serve together on various committees. They almost invariably took opposite sides on every question, but they did not allow their personal quarrel to interfere with their public duties.
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"Sure! So would I. Bet you, though, there won't be any of that kind of stuff at Brimfield. I dare say we'll wish ourselves out of it long before Christmas! If anyone wrongly accuses me of anything you can bet I'll make a kick. You won't see me getting punished for what some other fellow's done. That's all right in stories, but not for yours truly! Not a bit of it, Tom!"
"Philadelphia! Why, say, you're in the wrong station. You ought to go to the Pennsylvania Terminal. I guess you're a stranger here, eh? Tell you what I'll do. You come with me and I'll put you on a car that'll take you right there."
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