THE DELUGE



By David Graham Phillips

Author of The Cost, The Plum Tree, The Social Secretary, etc.



Illustrations (not available here) By George Gibbs






CONTENTS


I.   MR. BLACKLOCK

II.   IN THOSE DAYS AROSE KINGS

III.   CAME A WOMAN

IV.   A CANDIDATE FOR “RESPECTABILITY”

V.   DANGER SIGNALS

VI.   OF “GENTLEMEN”

VII.   BLACKLOCK GOES INTO TRAINING

VIII.   ON THE TRAIL OF LANGDON

IX.   LANGDON AT HOME

X.   TWO “PILLARS OF SOCIETY”

XI.   WHEN A MAN IS NOT A MAN

XII.   ANITA

XIII.   "UNTIL TO-MORROW”

XIV.   FRESH AIR IN A GREENHOUSE

XV.   SOME STRANGE LAPSES OF A LOVER

XVI.   TRAPPED AND TRIMMED

XVII.   A GENTEEL “HOLD-UP”

XVIII.   ANITA BEGINS TO BE HERSELF

XIX.   A WINDFALL FROM “GENTLEMAN JOE”

XX.   A BREATHING SPELL

XXI.   MOST UNLADYLIKE

XXII.   MOST UNGENTLEMANLY

XXIII.   "SHE HAS CHOSEN!”

XXIV.   BLACKLOCK ATTENDS FAMILY PRAYERS

XXV.   "MY WIFE MUST!”

XXVI.   THE WEAK STRAND

XXVII.   A CONSPIRACY AGAINST ANITA

XXVIII.   BLACKLOCK SEES A LIGHT

XXIX.   A HOUSEWARMING

XXX.   BLACKLOCK OPENS FIRE

XXXI.   ANITA'S SECRET

XXXII.   LANGDON COMES TO THE SURFACE

XXXIII.     MRS. LANGDON MAKES A CALL

XXXIV.   "MY RIGHT EYE OFFENDS ME”

XXXV.   "WILD WEEK”

XXXVI.   "BLACK MATT'S” TRIUMPH