Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight

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Mathew Joseph Holt. Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight

Chit-Chat; Nirvana; The Searchlight

Table of Contents

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

Cornwall Meets a Mountain Maid

CHAPTER III

Cornwall Locates In Harlan

CHAPTER IV

A Week in a Mountain Home

CHAPTER V

The Saylors Move to the Bluegrass

CHAPTER VI

Cornwall Buys a Home

CHAPTER VII

Mary and John Progress

CHAPTER VIII

Dorothy and Bradford—Rosamond and Cornwall

CHAPTER IX

The Saylor Family

CHAPTER X

Mary and John Are Married

CHAPTER XI

Home Life

PART II

Seeing Italy at Mrs. O'Flannagan's Expense

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

"Y" Service

CHAPTER III

John Cornwall Travels a Bit and Returns Home

CHAPTER IV

Two Candidates

NIRVANA

A CONSCIOUS MUMMY

DOCTOR BROWN OF DANVILLE

RICHARD HAWKWOOD

THE SEARCHLIGHT

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Mathew Joseph Holt

Published by Good Press, 2019

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He lay awake half the night thinking of Mary and his mother and listening to the penetrating tones of a hoot owl far up the mountain side. The house did not seem the same as the one at which he had stopped less than a month before. He was homesick and felt inclined to return to Louisville.

When he rode into Pineville at noon the next day he found the hotel crowded with visiting lawyers and litigants. The Commonwealth's attorney told him that the Saylor case was set for hearing the following morning and that the prosecution was ready for trial. He also learned that Saylor was treating the case as a joke and had employed Squire Putman to represent him for twenty-five dollars; which he said was a big price for the services he would or could render. "I can always depend upon the Squire to help convict his client. It is a mystery to the bar how he ever obtained license to practice law."

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