CABIN FEVER
By B. M. Bower
CONTENTS
CABIN FEVER
CHAPTER ONE. THE FEVER MANIFESTS ITSELF
CHAPTER TWO. TWO MAKE A QUARREL
CHAPTER THREE. TEN DOLLARS AND A JOB FOR BUD
CHAPTER FOUR. HEAD SOUTH AND KEEP GOING
CHAPTER FIVE. BUD CANNOT PERFORM MIRACLES
CHAPTER SIX. BUD TAKES TO THE HILLS
CHAPTER SEVEN. INTO THE DESERT
CHAPTER EIGHT. MANY BARREN MONTHS AND MILES
CHAPTER NINE. THE BITE OF MEMORY
CHAPTER TEN. EMOTIONS ARE TRICKY THINGS
CHAPTER ELEVEN. THE FIRST STAGES
CHAPTER TWELVE. MARIE TAKES A DESPERATE CHANCE
CHAPTER THIRTEEN. CABIN FEVER IN THE WORST FORM
CHAPTER FOURTEEN. CASH GETS A SHOCK
CHAPTER FIFTEEN. AND BUD NEVER GUESSED
CHAPTER SIXTEEN. THE ANTIDOTE
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN. LOVIN CHILD WRIGGLES IN
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN. THEY HAVE THEIR TROUBLES
CHAPTER NINETEEN. BUD FACES FACTS
CHAPTER TWENTY. LOVIN CHILD STRIKES IT RICH
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE. MARIE'S SIDE OF IT
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO. THE CURE COMPLETE
CABIN FEVER
CHAPTER ONE. THE FEVER MANIFESTS ITSELF
There is a certain malady of the mind induced by too much of one thing. Just as the body fed too long upon meat becomes a prey to that horrid disease called scurvy, so the mind fed too long upon monotony succumbs to the insidious mental ailment which the West calls “cabin fever.” True, it parades under different names, according to circumstances and caste. You may be afflicted in a palace and call it ennui, and it may drive you to commit peccadillos and indiscretions of various sorts. You may be attacked in a middle-class apartment house, and call it various names, and it may drive you to cafe life and affinities and alimony. You may have it wherever you are shunted into a backwater of life, and lose the sense of being borne along in the full current of progress. Be sure that it will make you abnormally sensitive to little things; irritable whe