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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
CHAPTER IV.
CHAPTER V.
CHAPTER VI.
CHAPTER VII.
CHAPTER VIII.
CHAPTER IX.
CHAPTER X.
CHAPTER XI.
CHAPTER XII.
CHAPTER XIII.
CHAPTER XIV.
CHAPTER XV.
CHAPTER XVI.
CHAPTER XVII.
CHAPTER XVIII.
CHAPTER XIX.
CHAPTER XX.
CHAPTER XXI.
CHAPTER XXII.
CHAPTER XXIII.
CHAPTER XXIV.
CHAPTER XXV.
CHAPTER XXVI.
THE MANHATTANERS
A Story of the Hour
BY
EDWARD S. VAN ZILE
AUTHOR OF
“A MAGNETIC MAN,” “LAST OF THE VAN SLACKS,”
ETC., ETC.
NEW YORK
LOVELL, CORYELL & COMPANY
1895
Copyright, 1895,
By United States Book Company.
5
“I don’t want to discourage you, my boy,but, as our ‘brevier writers’ are so fond ofsaying, there is ‘food for reflection’ in thathistoric figure.”
It was half an hour after midnight, and twomen were standing at the south-west corner ofCity Hall park, gazing at the statue of NathanHale. The taller of the two was a man who,having passed the portentous age of forty, nolonger referred to his birthday when he reachedit. He had maintained silence on this subjectfor several years, and his friends were not certainwhether he was forty-one or forty-five;but his face seemed to indicate the latter age.It was a strong