THE EMBLEMS OF FIDELITY

PART THIRD

A Comedy in Letters

BY

JAMES LANE ALLEN

AUTHOR OF
"THE KENTUCKY CARDINAL,"
"THE KENTUCKY WARBLER," ETC.

There is nothing so ill-bred as audible
laughter.... I am sure that since I have
had the full use of my reason nobody has
ever heard me laugh.
        —Lord Chesterfield's Letters to his Son.

GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1919

COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, INCLUDING THAT OF
TRANSLATION INTO FOREIGN LANGUAGES,
INCLUDING THE SCANDINAVIAN

To
THE SPIRIT OF COMEDY

INCOMPARABLE ALLY
OF VICTORY

LIST OF CHARACTERS

EDWARD BLACKTHORNE . . . Famous elderly English novelist

BEVERLEY SANDS . . . Rising young American novelist

BENJAMIN DOOLITTLE . . . Practical lawyer, friend of Beverley Sands

GEORGE MARIGOLD . . . Fashionable physician

CLAUDE MULLEN . . . Fashionable nerve-specialist, friend of George Marigold

RUFUS KENT . . . Long-winded president of a club

NOAH CHAMBERLAIN . . . Very learned, very absent-minded professor

PHILLIPS AND FAULDS . . . Florists

BURNS AND BRUCE . . . Florists

JUDD AND JUDD . . . Florists

ANDY PETERS . . . Florist

HODGE . . . Stupid gardener of Edward Blackthorne

TILLY SNOWDEN . . . Dangerous sweetheart of Beverley Sands

POLLY BOLES . . . Dangerous sweetheart of Benjamin Doolittle, friend of Tilly Snowden

CLARA LOUISE CHAMBERLAIN . . . Very devoted, very proud sensitive daughter of Noah Chamberlain

ANNE RAEBURN . . . Protective secretary of Edward Blackthorne

CONTENTS

PART SECOND

PART THIRD