At the Sign of the Silver Flagon
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Farjeon Benjamin Leopold. At the Sign of the Silver Flagon
Part the First. AT THE OTHER END OF THE WORLD
CHAPTER I. SILVER CREEK TOWNSHIP
CHAPTER II. HOW BABY OBTAINED HER SHARE IN THE STAR DRAMATIC COMPANY
CHAPTER III. THE OPENING OF THE THEATRE, AND WHAT PART BABY TOOK IN THE PERFORMANCES
CHAPTER IV. MR. HART SEARCHES FOR A GOLDEN REEF
CHAPTER V. PHILIP'S RIDE FOR FLOWERS FOR MARGARET
CHAPTER VI. ROMEO AND JULIET
CHAPTER VII. AH, PHILIP, MY SON! I, ALSO, HAVE A GIRL WHOM I LOVE
CHAPTER VIII. GOD BLESS EVERYBODY
CHAPTER IX. A MAN OF METTLE
CHAPTER X. TO-MORROW IT IS ST. VALENTINE'S DAY
CHAPTER XI "I AM GOING TO SPEAK OUT," SAID PHILIP
CHAPTER XII "PRAY FOR RAIN, MY DARLING."
CHAPTER XIII "WHAT IF THERE ARE VILLAINS AND SCOUNDRELS IN THE WORLD?" HE CRIED, "WE WILL NEVER LOSE OUR FAITH IN GOD AND MAN-NEVER! NEVER! NEVER!"
CHAPTER XIV "THIS IS LIKE THE DAWN OF LIFE, MY SWEET."
CHAPTER XV. PHILIP IS CONVINCED OF THE EFFICACY OF MARGARET'S PRAYERS
CHAPTER XVI. THE CHRISTENING OF THE WILLIAM SMITH
CHAPTER XVII. NATURE PUNISHES THE THIEF
CHAPTER XVIII. WILLIAM SMITH'S AMBITION
CHAPTER XIX. MR. HART DECIDES TO WAIT A LITTLE LONGER
CHAPTER XX. THEY FLEW LIKE MADMEN INTO THE TOWN
CHAPTER XXI. DRIVEN BY LOVE INTO THE JAWS OF DEATH
CHAPTER XXII "DEAR OLD FELLOW! GOD BLESS MARGARET AND YOU!"
Part the Second. HOME
CHAPTER I. THE CURTAIN FALLS FOR A BRIEF SPACE
CHAPTER II "THE WORLD IS FULL OF SWEET AND BEAUTIFUL PLACES."
CHAPTER III. CUSTOS ROTULORUM
CHAPTER IV. IT WAS JUST SUCH A DAY AS THIS; AND THE AIR WAS SWEET, AND LIFE WAS SWEET
CHAPTER V. A STRANGE STORY
CHAPTER VI. MR. LEWIS NATHAN INTRODUCES HIMSELF
CHAPTER VII. MARGARET TAKES THE HELM
CHAPTER VIII "SHE NEVER TOLD HER LOVE."
CHAPTER IX. LUCY'S PRINCE APPEARS ON THE SCENE
CHAPTER X. THE THEORY OF FRIENDSHIP
CHAPTER XI. A PEEP INTO BLUEBEARD'S ROOM
CHAPTER XII. MR. HART DECLARES THAT HONESTY HAS DIED OUT OF THE WORLD
Part the Third. THE DINNER OF THIRTEEN
CHAPTER I. STRANGE PREPARATIONS FOR THE DINNER
CHAPTER II. ARRIVAL OF BUT ONE GUEST AT A DINNER FOR THIRTEEN
CHAPTER III. ARRIVAL OF UNEXPECTED GUESTS
CHAPTER IV. MARGARET'S TRIUMPH
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It is December, and the sun marks the record of a hundred and six in the shade. We are at the golden end of the world, in Australia, at Silver Creek, twelve months ago a wilderness, now a busy and thriving township. Within this brief space, an infant in the history of cities has grown into what promises to become a strong and healthy man. Unknown, unthought of but a year ago, the name of Silver Creek is already a household word in a new and flourishing colony, and holds an important place in the journals of commerce.
There are turnings and thoroughfares in Silver Creek sufficiently irregular to drive land surveyors into a state of distraction, and there is but one street which exhibits anything like regularity in its formation; but this is a result more of accident than design. It is the principal street in the township, and is lined with wooden tenements and calico tents, in which the business of the town is transacted. Stores of every description, in which all things necessary, and many things unnecessary, for the requirements of life, are to be found within the limits of this thoroughfare, which is known to the residents as High Street. If you are curious in such matters, you may calculate how many stores High Street contains by setting its length at a mile and a half, and giving each store an average frontage of sixteen feet. A few of the buildings are of wood, the majority of calico, and the inhabitants of one Englishman's castle can hear the inhabitants of the next talking and bargaining during the day, and sighing and murmuring during the night. Not that the inhabitants of Silver Creek are all Englishmen. Other nations thirsting to have their fingers in the golden pie, have sent their representatives across the seas and through the bush, and Americans, Germans, Frenchmen, Spaniards, Italians, Mongols, and Africans, form a rare Tower-of-Babel community. As, however, they have all been drawn thither by one magnet-fashioned of bright gold-they do not emulate the Tower-of-Babel folk, but hob-a-nob amicably with one another, and make common cause of it with the ubiquitous Englishman. The pie is a rich one, but the fruit is unequally distributed, and there are many waste places in it (unfortunately not seen until the crust is dived into), the discovery of which brings disappointment and despair to the hungry seekers. The despair does not last long; they are soon tearing up the earth again, animated by new hopes of coming suddenly upon rich pockets of gold.
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"Here, Jim!" she cried, to her husband, running into the house, thinking that a bushranger (Anglicè, highwayman) was paying them a visit.
Jim promptly appeared, with a gun in his hand. "Now then?" he demanded, nothing daunted.
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