To Him That Hath
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Scott Leroy. To Him That Hath
BOOK I. THE HIGHEST PRICE
CHAPTER I. AN INJUSTICE OF GOD
CHAPTER II. WHAT DAVID FOUND IN MORTON'S CLOSET
CHAPTER III. THE BARGAIN
BOOK II. THE CLOSED ROAD
CHAPTER I. DAVID RE-ENTERS THE WORLD
CHAPTER II. A CALL FROM A NEIGHBOUR
CHAPTER III. THE SUPERFLUOUS MAN
CHAPTER IV. AN UNINVITED GUEST
CHAPTER V. GUEST TURNS HOST
CHAPTER VI. TOM IS SEEN AT WORK
CHAPTER VII. A NEW ITEM IN THE BILL OF SCORN
CHAPTER VIII. THE WORLD'S DENIAL
CHAPTER IX. THE OPEN ROAD
BOOK III. TOWARD THE LIGHT
CHAPTER I. THE MAYOR OF AVENUE A
CHAPTER II. THE SAVING LEDGE
CHAPTER III. A PROPHECY
CHAPTER IV. PUCK MASQUERADES AS CUPID
CHAPTER V. ON THE UPWARD PATH
CHAPTER VI. JOHN ROGERS
CHAPTER VII. HOPE AND DEJECTION
CHAPTER VIII. ROGERS MAKES AN OFFER
CHAPTER IX. THE MAYOR AND THE INEVITABLE
CHAPTER X. A BAD PENNY TURNS UP
CHAPTER XI. A LOVE THAT PERSEVERED
CHAPTER XII. MR. CHAMBERS TAKES A HAND
CHAPTER XIII. THE END OF THE DEAL
BOOK IV. THE SOUL OF WOMAN
CHAPTER I. HELEN CHAMBERS GETS A NEW VIEW OF HER FATHER
CHAPTER II. DAVID SEES THE FACE OF FORTUNE
CHAPTER III. HELEN'S CONSCIENCE
CHAPTER IV. THE ORDEAL OF KATE MORGAN
CHAPTER V. THE COMMAND OF LOVE
CHAPTER VI. ANOTHER WORLD
CHAPTER VII. AS LOVE APPORTIONS
CHAPTER VIII. A PARTIAL RELEASE
CHAPTER IX. FATHER AND DAUGHTER
CHAPTER X. THE BEGINNING OF LIFE
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The Reverend Philip Morton, head of St. Christopher's Mission, had often said that, in event of death or serious accident, he wished David Aldrich to be placed in charge of his personal affairs; so when at ten o'clock of a September morning the janitor, at order of the frightened housekeeper, broke into the bath-room and found Morton's body lying white and dead in the tub, the housekeeper's first clear thought was of a telegram to David.
The message came to David while he was doggedly working over a novel that had just come back from a third publisher. He glanced at the telegram, then his tall figure sank back into his chair and he stared at the yellow sheet. Never before had Death struck him so heavy a blow. The wound of his mother's death had been dealt in quick-healing childhood; and though his father, a Western mining engineer, had died but seven years before, David had known him hardly otherwise than as a remotely placed giver of an allowance. Morton had for years been his best friend – latterly almost his only friend. For a space the blow rendered him stupid; then the agony of his personal loss entered him, and wrung him; and then in beside his personal sorrow there crept a sense of the appalling loss of the people about St. Christopher's.
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David stumbled out, not noticing the relief his dejection gave the other applicants waiting outside the office. He saw the difficulty of his situation with a new, startling clearness; the superintendent had summed it up with business-like conciseness – "no experience, no references." A sudden fear, a sudden consternation, clutched him. Would he ever be able to pass that great wall standing between him and a position? – that wall builded of his prison record, of no experience, of no references?
Whether or not, he must try. He hurried to another office that had advertised for help, and to another, and to another – and so on for days. Usually he was turned away because there was really no work, but several times because to the penetrating questions he could return only his distrust-rousing answers. His courage tried to escape; but he caught it and held it, desperately.
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