In the Heart of a Fool

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CHAPTER I BEING STAGE DIRECTIONS, AND A CAST OF CHARACTERS

4 CHAPTER II IN WHICH WE INTRODUCE THE FOOL AND HIS LADY FAIR

21 CHAPTER III IN WHICH WE CONSIDER THE LADIES - GOD BLESS 'EM!

38 CHAPTER IV THE ADAMS FAMILY BIBLE LIES LIKE A GENTLEMAN

47 CHAPTER V IN WHICH MARGARET MuLLER DWELLS IN MARBLE HALLS

63 CHAPTER VI ENTER THE BEAUTY AND CHIVALRY OF HARVEY; ALSO HEREIN WE BREAK OUR FIRST HEART

69 CHAPTER VII IN WHICH WE SEE HOW LIFE TRANSLATES ITSELF INTO THE MATERIALISM AROUND IT

80 CHAPTER VIII CAPTAIN MORTON ACTS AS COURT HERALD AND MORTY SANDS AND GRANT ADAMS HEAR SAD NEWS

89 CHAPTER IX WHEREIN HENRY FENN MAKES AN INTERESTING EXPERIMENT

98 CHAPTER X IN WHICH MARY ADAMS TAKES A MUCH NEEDED REST

103 CHAPTER XI HERE OUR FOOL GROPES FOR A SPIRIT AND CAN FIND ONLY DUST

114 CHAPTER XII IN WHICH WE LEARN THAT LOVE IS THE LEVER THAT MOVES THE WORLD

126 CHAPTER XIII IN WHICH WE OBSERVE THE INTERIOR OF A DESERTED HOUSE

135 CHAPTER XIV IN WHICH OUR HERO STROLLS OUT WITH THE DEVIL TO LOOK AT THE HIGH MOUNTAIN

152 CHAPTER XV WHEREIN WE WELCOME IN A NEW YEAR AND CONSIDER A SERIOUS QUESTION

163 CHAPTER XVI GRANT ADAMS IS SOLD INTO BONDAGE AND MARGARET FENN RECEIVES A SHOCK

180 CHAPTER XVII A CHAPTER WHICH INTRODUCES SOME POSSIBLE GODS

187 CHAPTER XVIII OUR HERO RIDES TO HOUNDS WITH THE PRIMROSE HUNT

200 CHAPTER XIX HEREIN CAPTAIN MORTON FALLS UNDER SUSPICION AND HENRY FENN FALLS FROM GRACE

209 CHAPTER XX IN WHICH HENRY FENN FALLS FROM GRACE AND RISES AGAIN

219 CHAPTER XXI IN WHICH WE SEE A FAT LITTLE RASCAL ON THE RACK

232 CHAPTER XXII IN WHICH TOM VAN DORN BECOMES A WAYFARING MAN ALSO

241 CHAPTER XXIII HERE GRANT ADAMS DISCOVERS HIS INSIDES

252 CHAPTER XXIV IN WHICH THE DEVIL FORMALLY TAKES THE TWO

264 CHAPTER XXV IN WHICH WE SEE TWO TEMPLES AND THE CONTENTS THEREOF

277 CHAPTER XXVI DR. NESBIT STARTS ON A LONG UPWARD BUT DEVIOUS JOURNEY

288 CHAPTER XXVII IN WHICH WE SEE SOMETHING COME INTO THIS STORY OUTSIDE OF THE MATERIAL WORLD

298 CHAPTER XXVIII WHEREIN MORTY SANDS MAKES A FEW SENSIBLE REMARKS IN PUBLIC

309 CHAPTER XXIX BEING NOT A CHAPTER BUT AN INTERLUDE

320 CHAPTER XXX GRANT ADAMS PREACHING A MESSAGE OF LOVE RAISES THE VERY DEVIL IN HARVEY

337 CHAPTER XXXI IN WHICH JUDGE VAN DORN MAKES HIS BRAGS AND DR. NESBIT SEES A VISION

350 CHAPTER XXXII WHEREIN VIOLET HOGAN TAKES UP AN OLD TRADE AND MARGARET VAN DORN SEEKS A HIGHER PLANE

365 CHAPTER XXXIII IN WHICH THE ANGELS SHAKE A FOOT FOR HENRY FENN

379 CHAPTER XXXIV A SHORT CHAPTER, YET IN IT WE EXAMINE ONE

388 CHAPTER XXXV THE ODD SPIDER BEGINS TO DIVIDE HIS FLIES WITH

403 CHAPTER XXXVI A LONG CHAPTER BUT A BUSY ONE, IN WHICH

423 CHAPTER XXXVII IN WHICH WE WITNESS A CEREMONY IN THE TEMPLE OF LOVE

431 CHAPTER XXXVIII GRANT ADAMS VISITS THE SONS OF ESAU

441 CHAPTER XXXIX BEING NO CHAPTER AT ALL BUT AN INTERMEZZO BEFORE THE LAST MOVEMENT

444 CHAPTER XL HERE WE HAVE THE FELLOW AND THE GIRL BEGINNING TO PREPARE FOR THE LAST CHAPTER

454 CHAPTER XLI HERE WE SEE GRANT ADAMS CONQUERING HIS THIRD AND LAST DEVIL

468 CHAPTER XLII A CHAPTER WHICH IS CONCERNED LARGELY WITH THE

496 CHAPTER XLIII WHEREIN WE FIND GRANT ADAMS CALLING UPON

515 CHAPTER XLIV IN WHICH WE SUFFER LITTLE CHILDREN, WITH

527 CHAPTER XLV IN WHICH LIDA BOWMAN CONSIDERS HER UNIVERSE AND TOM VAN DORN WINS ANOTHER VICTORY

543 CHAPTER XLVI WHEREIN GRANT ADAMS PREACHES PEACE AND LIDA BOWMAN SPEAKS HER MIND

561 CHAPTER XLVII IN WHICH GRANT ADAMS AND LAURA VAN DORN TAKE

575 CHAPTER XLVIII WHEREIN WE ERECT A HOUSE BUILT UPON A ROCK

582 CHAPTER XLIX HOW MORTY SANDS TURNED AWAY SADLY AND JUDGE VAN DORN UNCOVERED A SECRET

597 CHAPTER L JUDGE VAN DORN SINGS SOME MERRY SONGS AND THEY TAKE GRANT ADAMS BEHIND A WHITE DOOR

609 CHAPTER LI IN WHICH WE END AS WE BEGAN AND ALL LIVE HAPPILY EVER AFTER

613 CHAPTER LII NOT EXACTLY A CHAPTER BUT RATHER A Q E D OR A HIC FABULA DOCET

BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE


THE REAL ISSUE
THE COURT OF BOYVILLE
STRATAGEMS AND SPOILS
IN OUR TOWN
A CERTAIN RICH MAN
THE OLD ORDER CHANGETH
GOD’S PUPPETS
THE MARTIAL ADVENTURES OF
      HENRY AND ME
IN THE HEART OF A FOOL


IN THE HEART OF A FOOL

BY

WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

Author of “In Our Town,” “A Certain Rich Man,”
“The Martial Adventures of Henry
and Me,” etc.

New York
THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1918

All rights reserved


COPYRIGHT, 1918
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY


Set up and electrotyped. Published October, 1918.


CONTENTS
CHAPTER PAGE
I Being Stage Directions, and a Cast of Characters. 1
II In Which We Introduce the Fool and His Lady Fair, and What He Said in His Heart–the Same Being the Theme and Thesis of This Story 4
III In Which We Consider the Ladies–God Bless ’Em! 21
IV The Adams Family Bible Lies Like a Gentleman 38
V In Which Margaret MÜller Dwells in Marble Halls and Henry Fenn and Kenyon Adams Win Notable Victories 47
VI Enter the Beauty and Chivalry of Harvey; Also Herein We Break Our Finest Heart 63
VII In Which We See How Life Translates Itself Into the Materialism Around It 69
VIII Captain Morton Acts As Court Herald and Morty Sands and Grant Adams Hear Sad News 80
IX Wherein Henry Fenn Tries an Interesting Experiment 89
X In Which Mary Adams Takes a Much Needed Rest 98
XI Wherein a Fool Gropes for a Spirit and Can Find Only Dust 103
XII In Which We Learn That Love Is the Lever That Moves the World 114
XIII In Which We Observe the Interior of a Deserted House 126
XIV In Which Our Hero Strolls out With the Devil to Look at the High Mountain 135
XV Wherein We Welcome in a New Year and Consider a Serious Question 152
XVI Grant Adams Is Sold Into Bondage and Margaret Fenn Receives a Shock 163
XVII A Chapter Which Introduces Some Possible Gods 180
XVIII Our Hero Rides to Hounds With the Primrose Hunt 187
XIX Herein Captain Morton Falls Under Suspicion and Henry Fenn Falls from Grace 200
XX In Which Henry Fenn Falls from Grace and Rises Again 209
XXI In Which We See a Fat Little Rascal on the Rack 219
XXII In Which Tom Van Dorn Becomes a Wayfaring Man Also 232
XXIII Here Grant Adams Discovers His Insides 241
XXIV In Which the Devil Formally Takes the Two Hindermost and Closes an Account in His Ledger 252
XXV In Which We See Two Temples and the Contents Thereof 264
XXVI Dr. Nesbit Starts on a Long Upward but Devious Journey 277
XXVII In Which We See Something Come Into This Story Outside of the Material World 288
XXVIII Wherein Morty Sands Makes a Few Sensible Remarks in Public 298
XXIX Being Not a Chapter but an Interlude 309
XXX Grant Adams Preaching a Message of Love Raises the Very Devil in Harvey 320
XXXI In Which Judge Van Dorn Makes His Brags and Dr. Nesbit Sees a Vision 337
XXXII Wherein Violet Hogan Takes up an Old Trade and Margaret Van Dorn Seeks a Higher Plane 350
XXXIII In Which the Angels Shake a Foot for Henry Fenn 365
XXXIV A Short Chapter, Yet in It We Examine One Canvas Heaven, One Real Heaven, and Two Snug Little Hells 379
XXXV The Old Spider Begins to Divide His Flies With Others and George Brotherton Is Puzzled Twice in One Night 388
XXXVI A Long Chapter but a Busy One, in Which Kenyon Adams and His Mother Have a Strange Meeting, and Lila Van Dorn Takes a Night Ride 403
XXXVII In Which We Witness a Ceremony in the Temple of Love 423
XXXVIII Grant Adams Visits the Sons of Esau 431
XXXIX Being No Chapter at All but an Intermezzo Before the Last Movement 441
XL Here We Have the Fellow and the Girl Beginning to Prepare for the Last Chapter 444
XLI Here We See Grant Adams Conquering His Third and Last Devil 454
XLII A Chapter Which Is Concerned Largely With the Love Affairs of “The Full Strength of the Company” 468
XLIII Wherein We Find Grant Adams Calling Upon Kenyon’s Mother, and Darkness Falls Upon Two Lovers 496
XLIV In Which We Suffer Little Children, With George Brotherton, and in General Consider the Habitants of the Kingdom 515
XLV In Which Lida Bowman Considers Her Universe and Tom Van Dorn Wins Another Victory 527
XLVI Wherein Grant Adams Preaches Peace and Lida Bowman Speaks Her Mind 543
XLVII In Which Grant Adams and Laura Van Dorn Take a Walk Down Market Street and Mrs. Nesbit Acquires a Long Lost Grandson-In-Law 561
XLVIII Wherein We Erect a House Built Upon a Rock 575
XLIX How Morty Sands Turned Away Sadly and Judge Van Dorn Uncovered a Secret 582
L Judge Van Dorn Sings Some Merry Songs and They Take Grant Adams Behind a White Door 597
LI In Which We End As We Began and All Live Happily Ever After 609
LII Not Exactly a Chapter but Rather a Q. E. D. or a Hic Fabula Docet 613

1IN THE HEART OF A FOOL



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