THE BIG MOGUL
By JOSEPH C. LINCOLN
THE BIG MOGUL
QUEER JUDSON
RUGGED WATER
DOCTOR NYE
FAIR HARBOR
GALUSHA THE MAGNIFICENT
THE PORTYGEE
“SHAVINGS”
MARY-’GUSTA
CAP’N DAN’S DAUGHTER
THE RISE OF ROSCOE PAINE
THE POSTMASTER
THE WOMAN-HATERS
KEZIAH COFFIN
CY WHITTAKER’S PLACE
CAP’N ERI
EXTRICATING OBADIAH
THANKFUL’S INHERITANCE
MR. PRATT
MR. PRATT’S PATIENTS
KENT KNOWLES: “QUAHAUG”
CAP’N WARREN’S WARDS
THE DEPOT MASTER
OUR VILLAGE
PARTNERS OF THE TIDE
THE OLD HOME HOUSE
CAPE COD BALLADS
THE MANAGERS
The Big Mogul
by
Joseph C. Lincoln
Author of “Queer Judson,” “Rugged Water,”
“Shavings,” etc.
D. Appleton and Company
New York 1926 London
COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY
D. APPLETON AND COMPANY
Copyright, 1926, by The Crowell Publishing Company
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
THE BIG MOGUL
THE BIG MOGUL
CHAPTER I
THIS was the library of the Townsend mansion inHarniss. Mrs. Townsend had so christened it whenthe mansion was built; or, to be more explicit, theBoston architect who drew the plans had lettered the word“Library” inside the rectangle indicating the big room, justas he had lettered “Drawing-Room” in the adjoining, andstill larger, rectangle, and Mrs. Townsend had approved bothplans and lettering. In the former, and much smaller, homeof the Townsends there had been neither library nor drawing-room,the apartments corresponding to them were known respectivelyas the “sitting-room” and the “parlor.” When thelittle house was partially demolished and the mansion took itsplace the rechristened sitting-room acquired two black walnutbookcases and a dozen “sets,” the latter resplendent in moroccoand gilt. Now the gilt letters gleamed dimly behind the glassin the light from the student lamp upon the marble-toppedcenter table beside which Foster Townsend was sitting, readinga Boston morning newspaper. It was six o’clock in the afternoonof a dark day in the fall of a year late in the seventies.
The student lamp was a large one and the light from beneathits green shade fell upon his head and shoulders as hesat there in the huge leather easy-chair. Most of the furniturein the library was stiff and expensive and uncomfortable. Theeasy-chair was expensive also, but it was comfortable. FosterTowns