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.
Table of Contents
NOTHING BUT THE TRUTH
“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