NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH

 

By

 

FREDERIC S. ISHAM

 

Author of

The Strollers, Under the Rose,

The Social Buccaneer, Etc.

 

INDIANAPOLIS

THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY

PUBLISHERS


Copyright 1914

The Bobbs-Merrill Company

 

PRESS OF

BRAUNWORTH & CO.

BOOKBINDERS AND PRINTERS

BROOKLYN, N. Y.



NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH

CHAPTER I—THE TEMERITY OF BOB

“It can’t be done.”

“Of course, it can.”

“A man couldn’t survive the ordeal.”

“Could do it myself.”

The scene was the University Club. The talkspread over a good deal of space, as talk will whenpink cocktails, or “green gardens in a glass” confront,or are in front of, the talkees. Dickie said it couldn’tbe done and Bob said it was possible and that he coulddo it. He might not have felt such confidence had itnot been for the verdant stimulation. He could havedone anything just then, so why not this particularfeat or stunt? And who was this temerarious one andwhat was he like?

As an excellent specimen of a masculine young animal,genus homo, Bob Bennett was good to look on.Some of those young ladies who wave banners whenyoung men strain their backs and their arms and theirlegs in the cause of learning, had, in the days of thenot remote past, dubbed him, sub rosa, the “blue-eyedApollo.” Some of the fellow

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