at
                                     Washington.
KILGOUR,                             City Chamberlain of New York.
TIM HENEY,                           Leader of Tammany Hall.
SEELEY,                              an anti-Tammany Democratic
                                     leader.
ELLISON,                             another.
THE POLICE-COMMISSIONER OF NEW YORK CITY.
GEORGE KAINDIAC,                     a U. S. Post-Office Inspector.
VENABLE,   )                         leaders of the Municipal
NELSON,    )                         Reform League.
YEATES,    )
JARVIE,                              a Municipal Reform League
                                     "worker."



*Lawyers*.

BROUWER LEIGHTON,                    District-Attorney of New
                                     York.  A Republican.
LARRY O'MARA,                        a member of his staff,
UHLER,                               another member of Leighton's
                                     staff.

EX-JUDGE MARCUS F. STEIN,            of the firm of Stein, Falconridge,
                                     Falconridge & Perry,
                                     corporation-lawyers.
IRWIN,                               a member of Stein's staff.
ANSON QUIRK,                         an underworld lawyer.
LUKE HUBER,                          a young lawyer.



*Businessmen*.

ROBERT M. DOHAN,                     president of the M. & N. R. R.
HENRY G. McKAY,                      his successor.
B. FRANK OSSERMAN,                   president of the East County
                                     National Bank.
WALLACE K. FORBES,                   head of the firm of R. H.
                                     Forbes & Son, manufacturers
                                     of ready-made clothing,
ALEXANDER TITUS,                     financial-inquiry agent.
JAMES T. ROLLINS,                    the MAN'S secretary.
ATWOOD,                              his chief broker.
SIMPSON,                             his almoner.
CONOVER,                             one of his confidential clerks.
HERBERT CROY,                        manager of the Ruysdael estate.
WHITAKER,                            superintendent of the Forbes
                                     factory.
THE DESK-CLERK,                      in the Arapahoe Apartment house.
CHARLEY,                             a clerk in the M. R. L. offices,
REV. PINKNEY NICHOLSON,              rector of Church of St. Athanasius.



*Miscellaneous Persons*.

THE MAN'S NIECE.
CORNELIUS RUYSDAEL,                  a wealthy New Yorker of
                                     good family.
MRS. RUYSDAEL,                       his wife.
TOMMY HALLETT,                       son of George J.
JOHN JAY PORCELLIS,                  a young man of leisure.
BETTY FORBES,                        daughter of Wallace K. Forbes.
MRS. HUBER,                          mother of Luke and wife of
                                     G. W. Huber.
JANE HUBER,                          her daughter.
JAMES,                               the Forbes chauffeur.
MISS WESTON,                         a telephone operator.
BREIL,                               a strike-breaker.
AN I.W.W. ORGANIZER.



*Policeman*.

HUGH DONOVAN,                        a police-lieutenant
MITCHELL,    )
ANDERSON,    )                       patrolmen.
GUTH,        )



*Militiamen*.

CAPTAIN ANTONIO FACCIOLATI,          of the New York N. G.
TERRY,                               first-lieutenant under Facciolati.
SCHMIDT,                             a sergeant.



*Citizens of the Underworld*.

A BUM.
GACE,                                an assassin.
A DISORDERLY WOMAN.
A WOMAN-RIOTER.
A DRUNKEN WOMAN.
REDDY RAWN,                          leader of an East Side "gang."
REDDY'S "GIRL."
THE KID,                             one of his associates,
CRAB ROTELLO.                        head of a rival gang.
ZANTZINGER,                          a gunman.
BUTCH DELLITT,                       another gunman.



*Other Persons*.

Women of the street, the brothel, the world.
Clothing-factory workers.
A mob.
Waiters in saloons.
Clerks and foremen in the Forbes factory.
Stenographers and typists.
Gamblers.
Other gangmen.
Other policemen.
Various minor Republican, Democratic, Reform, and Progressive
     politicians.
Newspaper-reporters.
Some newspaper-editors.
A corps of strike-breakers.
Scabs.
Soldiers of the New York National Guard.

THE SPIDER'S WEB

CHAPTER I

§1. Early that morning, Luke Huber stood before the Pennsylvania Railroad Station at Americus and fancied himself a latter-day crusader setting out to reconquer from the infidels the modern Holy City of God. He had graduated from the Harvard Law-School in the previous June. Now the Republican brother-in-law of one of his classmates, having been elected District-Attorney of corruptly Democratic New York, offered a place on his staff to Luke as soon as Huber should meet successfully the necessary formalities. This new public-prosecutor was to "clean up" the largest city in the country, and Luke, as his assistant, was to aid in restoring to the metropolis the ideals of the framers of the Constitution.

A slim young man, with a smooth face too rugged to be handsome, and gray eyes too keen to be always dreaming, Huber stood erect, the wide collar of his woolen overcoat turned up, for the spring lingered that year in the valleys of Virginia, and the brim of his Alpine hat pulled over his nose. He disregarded the group of boys waiting for the "up-train" that would bring the Philadelphia morning newspapers to his native Pennsylvania town,