tion>Booth Tarkington
The Conquest of Canaan
Published by Good Press, 2021
EAN 4057664575234
Table of Contents
ENTER CHORUS
A RESCUE
OLD HOPES
THE DISASTER
BEAVER BEACH
YE'LL TAK' THE HIGH ROAD AND I'LL TAK' THE LOW ROAD
GIVE A DOG A BAD NAME
A BAD PENNY TURNS UP
"OUTER DARKNESS"
THE TRYST
WHEN HALF-GODS GO
TO REMAIN ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE IS NOT ALWAYS A VICTORY
THE WATCHER AND THE WARDEN
WHITE ROSES IN A LAW-OFFICE
HAPPY FEAR GIVES HIMSELF UP
THE TWO CANAANS
MR. SHEEHAN'S HINTS
IN THE HEAT OF THE DAY
ESKEW ARP
THREE ARE ENLISTED
NORBERT WAITS FOR JOE
MR. SHEEHAN SPEAKS
JOE WALKS ACROSS THE COURT-HOUSE YARD
MARTIN PIKE KEEPS AN ENGAGEMENT
THE JURY COMES IN
ANCIENT OF DAYS
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ENTER CHORUS
A dry snow had fallen steadily throughout the still night, so that when a cold, upper wind cleared the sky gloriously in the morning the incongruous Indiana town shone in a white harmony—roof, ledge, and earth as evenly covered as by moonlight. There was no thaw; only where the line of factories followed the big bend of the frozen river, their distant chimneys like exclamation points on a blank page, was there a first threat against the supreme whiteness. The wind passed quickly and on high; the shouting of the school-children had ceased at nine o'clock with pitiful suddenness; no sleigh-bells laughed out on the air; and the muffling of the thoroughfares wrought an unaccustomed peace like that of Sunday. This was the phenomenon which afforded the opening of the morning debate of the sages in the wide windows of the "National House."
Only such unfortunates as have so far failed to visit Canaan do not know that the "National House" is on the Main Street side of the Court-house Square, and has the advantage of being within two minutes' walk of the railroad station, which is in plain sight of the windows—an inestimable benefit to the conversation of the aged men who occupied these
