Transcriber’s Note: The reader may wish to be warned that this bookcontains racial stereotyping more than usually unpleasant even by thestandards of its time. Read as far as the Dedication and use that todecide whether or not you want to continue.
BLOOD WILL TELL
THE STRANGE STORY OF
A SON OF HAM
BY
BENJ. RUSH DAVENPORT
AUTHOR OF
Blue and Gray, Uncle Sam’s Cabins,
Anglo-Saxons, Onward, Etc.
Illustrations
by
J.H. Donahey
CLEVELAND
Caxton Book Co.
1902
Copyright
by
Benj. Rush Davenport
1902
All rights reserved
DEDICATION
To all Americans who deem purityof race an all-important element inthe progress of our beloved country.
THE AUTHOR
For obvious reasons the dateof this story is not given ...
List of Illustrations
| “The brutalized features of Walter Burton were revealed. | Frontispiece |
| “Lucy passed her soft, white arm around her grandfather’s neck.” | Page 108 |
| “He recklessly rushed in front of Burton.” | Page 286 |
| “Lucy, I have always loved you.” | Page 340 |
BLOOD WILL TELL
I.
Boston was shrouded in a mantle ofmist that November day, the north-eastwind bringing at each blast re-enforcementto the all-enveloping and obscuring massof gloom that embraced the city in its arms ofdarkness.
Glimmering like toy candles in the distance,electric lights, making halos of the fog, markeda pathway for the hurrying crowds that pouredalong the narrow, crooked streets of New England’sgrand old city. In one of the oldest,narrowest and most crooked thoroughfaresdown near the wharfs a light burning within thewindow of an old-fashioned building brought tosight the name “J. Dunlap” and the words “Shippingand Banking.”
No living man in Boston nor the father of anyman in Boston had ever known a day when passing[2]that old house the sign had not been therefor him to gaze upon and lead him to wonder ifthe Dunlap line would last unbroken forever.
In early days of the Republic some Dunlaphad in a small way traded with the West Indianislands, especially Haiti, and la