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THE DEAVES AFFAIR
By HULBERT FOOTNER
AUTHOR OF
"The Owl Taxi," "The Substitute Millionaire,"
"The Fur Bringers," "The Woman from Outside,"
"Thieves' Wit," etc.
A. L. BURT COMPANY
Publishers New York
Published by arrangement with George H. Doran Company
Printed in U. S. A.
COPYRIGHT, 1922,
BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
TO
THE NOANKERS
KATHERINE FOREST
RUTH GREEN HARRIS
AND THE CHERUB WHO SITS UP ALOFT
W. SHERMAN POTTS
CONTENTS
| CHAPTER | |
| I | A Penny Change |
| II | A Rich Man's House |
| III | Snooping |
| IV | The New Lodger |
| V | The Happy Little Family |
| VI | The Little Fellow in Grey |
| VII | Platonic Friendship |
| VIII | Evan is Re-engaged |
| IX | The Compact is Smashed |
| X | Maud's Interest |
| XI | The Steamboat Ernestina |
| XII | Evan Loses a Round |
| XIII | A Little Detective Work |
| XIV | Number 11 Van Dorn Street |
| XV | The Club House |
| XVI | Back to Earth |
| XVII | The Ernestina Again |
| XVIII | The Accident |
| XIX | Four Visits from George Deaves |
| XX | The Beginning of the Night |
| XXI | Later that Night |
| XXII | Towards Morning |
| XXIII | Simeon Deaves Turns Philanthropist |
| XXIV | Conclusion |
| Postscript |
THE DEAVES AFFAIR
CHAPTER I
A PENNY CHANGE
Evan Weir's pipe was foul; he threw it down with an exclamation of disgust. Its foulness was symbolic; everything was out of kilter. He looked at the picture he had been painting for a week—rotten! It was a still life; a broken jar and three books on a rag of Persian embroidery. Picking up his pen-knife he deliberately cut the canvas out of the stretcher, and setting a match to a corner of it, tossed it in the empty