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The Sturdy Oak - A composite Novel of American Politics by fourteen American authors by Unknown
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XI. BY MARJORIE BENTON COOK

XII. BY WILLIAM ALLEN WHITE

XIII. BY MARY AUSTIN

XIV. BY LEROY SCOTT ILLUSTRATIONS

"Nobody ever means that a woman really can't get along without a man's
protection, because look at the women who do"

It was hard on the darling old boy to come home to Miss Emelene and the cat
and Eleanor and Alys every night!

"You mean because she's a suffragist? You sent her away for _that!_ Why,
really, that's _tyranny!_"

Across the way, Mrs. Herrington, the fighting blood of five generations
of patriots roused in her, had reinstated the Voiceless Speech. PRINCIPAL
CHARACTERS

_George Remington_... Aged twenty-six; newly married. Recently returned to
his home town, New York State, to take up the practice of law. Politically
ambitious, a candidate for District Attorney. Opposed to woman suffrage.

_Genevieve_... His wife, aged twenty-three, graduate of Smith. Devoted to
George; her ideal being to share his every thought.

_Betty Sheridan_... A friend of Genevieve. Very pretty; one of the first
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