Illustration: Tom was fronting the firebrand Dabney like a man.





THE QUICKENING


By

FRANCIS LYNDE
Author of
The Grafters,
The Master of Appleby,
etc., etc.

WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BY E.M. ASHE

INDIANAPOLIS
THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY
PUBLISHERS

Copyright 1906
Francis Lynde

March

PRESS OF