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Title: Helen of the Old HouseAuthor: Harold Bell Wright
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EBOOK HELEN OF THE OLD HOUSE ***
Produced by Brendan Lane, Josephine Paolucci
and PG Distributed ProofreadersHELEN OF THE OLD HOUSE
BY HAROLD BELL WRIGHT
1921CONTENTS
BOOK ONE
THE INTERPRETER
CHAPTER
I. THE HUT ON THE CLIFF
II. LITTLE MAGGIE'S PRINCESS LADY
III. THE INTERPRETER
IV. PETER MARTIN AT HOME
V. ADAM WARD'S ESTATE
VI. ON THE OLD ROAD
VII. THE HIDDEN THING
VIII. WHILE THE PEOPLE SLEEP
IX. THE MILLX. CONCERNING THE NEW MANAGER
XI. COMRADES
XII. TWO SIDES OF A QUESTION
BOOK TWO
THE TWO HELENS
XIII. THE AWAKENING
XIV. THE WAY BACK
XV. AT THE OLD HOUSE
XVI. HER OWN PEOPLE
XVII. IN THE NIGHT
BOOK THREE
THE STRIKE
XVIII. THE GATHERING STORM
XIX. ADAM WARD'S WORKXX. THE PEOPLE'S AMERICA
XXI. PETER MARTIN'S PROBLEM
XXII. OLD FRIENDS
XXIII. A LAST CHANCE
XXIV. THE FLATS
XXV. McIVER's OPPORTUNITY
XXVI. AT THE CALL OF THE WHISTLE
XXVII. JAKE VODELL'S MISTAKE
XXVIII. THE MOB AND THE MILL
XXIX. CONTRACTS
BOOK FOUR
THE OLD HOUSE
XXX. "JEST LIKE THE INTERPRETER SAID"BOOK I
THE INTERPRETER
"Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields."CHAPTER I
THE HUT ON THE CLIFF
No well informed resident of Millsburgh, when
referring to the principal industry of his little
manufacturing city, ever says "the mills"—it is
always "the Mill."
The reason for this common habit of mind is that
one mill so overshadows all others, and so
dominates the industrial and civic life of this
community, that in the people's thought it stands
for all.
The philosopher who keeps the cigar stand on the
corner of Congress Street and Ward Avenue
explained it very clearly when he answered an
inquiring stranger, "You just can't think Millsburgh
without thinkin' mills; an' you can't think mills
without thinkin' the Mill."
As he turned from the cash register to throw his
customer's change on the scratched top of the
glass show case, the philosopher added with a grin
that was a curious blend of admiration, contempt
and envy, "An' you just can't think the Mill without
thinkin' Adam Ward."
That grin was another distinguishing mark of the
well informed resident of Millsburgh. Always, in
