The Walking Delegate

The
Walking Delegate

Leroy Scott

With Frontispiece

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New York
Doubleday, Page & Company
1905

To My Wife

CONTENTS

CHAPTER		PAGE
I.	On the St. Etienne Hotel	3
II.	The Walking Delegate	14
III.	The Rise of Buck Foley	30
IV.	A Council of War	9
V.	Tom Seeks Help from the Enemy	50
VI.	In which Foley Plays with Two Mice	59
VII.	Getting the Men in Line	72
VIII.	The Coward	85
IX.	Ruth Arnold	98
X.	Last Days of the Campaign	111
XI.	In Foley's "Office"	120
XII.	The Election	129
XIII.	The Day After	145
XIV.	New Courage and New Plans	153
XV.	Mr. Baxter Has a Few Conferences	166
XVI.	Blows	177
XVII.	The Entertainment Committee	187
XVIII.	The Stolen Strike	203
XIX.	Foley Tastes Revenge	210
XX.	Tom Has a Caller	224
XXI.	What Might Have Been	236
XXII.	The Progress of the Strike	250
XXIII.	The Triumph of Business Sense	257
XXIV.	Business is Business	267
XXV.	In which Foley Bows to Defeat	279
XXVI.	Petersen's Sin	290
XXVII.	The Thousandth Chance	304
XXVIII.	The Exposure	313
XXIX.	In which Mr. Baxter Shows Himself a Man of Resources	331
XXX.	The Last of Buck Foley	338
XXXI.	Tom's Levee	348
XXXII.	The Thorn of the Rose	364

LIST OF CHARACTERS

Buck Foley, a walking delegate.
Tom Keating, a foreman.
Maggie Keating, his wife.
Mr. Baxter, President of Iron Employers' Ass'n.
Mrs. Baxter.
Mr. Driscoll, a contractor.
Ruth Arnold, his secretary.
Mr. Berman, junior partner of Mr. Driscoll.
Mr. Murphy, a contractor.
Mr. Bobbs, a contractor.
Mr. Isaacs, a contractor.
Connelly, Secretary of Iron Workers' Union.
Nels Petersen, a "scab."
Anna Petersen, his wife.
Pig Iron Pete, a workman
Johnson, a workman.
Barry, a workman.
Mrs. Barry.
Jake Henderson
Arkansas Number Two		Members of
Kaffir Bill		"The Entertainment
Smokey		Committee."
Hickey

THE WALKING DELEGATE

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