Felix O'Day

By
F. Hopkinson Smith




Felix O'Day




Chapter I



Broadway on dry nights, or rather that part known
as the Great White Way, is a crowded thoroughfare,
dominated by lofty buildings, the sky-line studded
with constellations of colored signs pencilled in fire.
Broadway on wet, rain-drenched nights is the fairy
concourse of the Wonder City of the World, its asphalt
splashed with liquid jewels afloat in molten gold.

Across this flood of frenzied brilliance surge hurrying
mobs, dodging the ceaseless traffic, trampling
underfoot the wealth of the Indies, striding through
pools of quicksilver, leaping gutters filled to the brim
with melted rubies--horse, car, and man so many