GROSSET & DUNLAP
PUBLISHERS NEW YORK
Made in the United States of America
Copyright, 1921, by
W. J. WATT & COMPANY
Printed in the United States of America[Pg 1]
| CHAPTER I |
| CHAPTER II |
| CHAPTER III |
| CHAPTER IV |
| CHAPTER V |
| CHAPTER VI |
| CHAPTER VII |
| CHAPTER VIII |
| CHAPTER IX |
| CHAPTER X |
| CHAPTER XI |
| CHAPTER XII |
| CHAPTER XIII |
| CHAPTER XIV |
| CHAPTER XV |
| CHAPTER XVI |
If Nature is infallible, there should be some philosophic or eugenicprofessor arise and explain why she made such a grievous error in thepersonal appearance, vocal qualities, and general gestures of thelearned judge, astute politician and hopeful statesman, Hon. J.Woodworth-Granger and Mr. James Gollop, perigrinating drummer for achocolate house. Either the Honorable Judge should have been acommercial traveler, or the commercial traveler a judge. Outwardly theycould have passed for specimen twins, given handicaps to all comers, andeasily won the blue ribbon. Inwardly their characteristics were asdifferent as those of any two animals could be, the Judge having theponderous gravity of a camel, whilst Mr. James[Pg 2] Gollop was as sedate asa monkey and twice as ebullient. The Judge suffered from a prodigioussense of responsibility and dignity, whilst his double was given tofrivolities, a distressing sense of the ridiculous and was asirresponsible and happy as a flea hurdling from one boarding house toanother in a dog pound.
The first intimation the Judge had that some other person dared to looklike him was when, as he strode into the lobby of the Media City hotelin the best city in his state, a grinning porter rushed up, seized hissuit case and said affably, "Righto, Old Sport! Got here just in timethis trip and I'll send your cases to number two sample room, and open'em up if you'll gimme the burglar's kit. The room you kicked for lastmonth—remember."
The Hon. J. Woodworth-Granger, who from force of habit nev