FREE AND
OTHER STORIES
FREE AND OTHER
STORIES
BY THEODORE DREISER
AUTHOR OF “SISTER CARRIE,” “THE HAND OF THE POTTER,”
“JENNIE GERHARDT,” ETC.
BONI AND LIVERIGHT
NEW YORK 1918
Copyright, 1918
BY BONI & LIVERIGHT, Inc.
| First Printing | August, 1918 |
| Second Printing | August, 1918 |
| Third Printing | August, 1918 |
| Fourth Printing | December, 1918 |
CONTENTS
| PAGE | |
| Free | 9 |
| McEwen of the Shining Slave Makers | 54 |
| Nigger Jeff | 76 |
| The Lost Phœbe | 112 |
| The Second Choice | 135 |
| A Story of Stories | 163 |
| Old Rogaum and His Theresa | 201 |
| Will You Walk into My Parlor | 229 |
| The Cruise of the “Idlewild” | 300 |
| Married | 323 |
| When the Old Century was New | 351 |
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FREE
The large and rather comfortable apartment of Rufus Haymaker,architect, in Central Park West, was very silent. It was scarcely dawnyet, and at the edge of the park, over the way, looking out from thefront windows which graced this abode and gave it its charm, a statelyline of poplars was still shrouded in a gray morning mist. From his
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