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STORIES OF A WESTERN TOWN
by OCTAVE THANET

CONTENTS
The Besetment of Kurt Lieders
The Face of Failure
Tommy and Thomas
Mother Emeritus
An Assisted Providence
Harry Lossing

THE BESETMENT OF KURT LIEDERS
A SILVER rime glistened all down the street.
There was a drabble of dead leaves on the sidewalk which was of wood,
and on the roadway which was of macadam and stiff mud. The wind
blew sharply, for it was a December day and only six in the morning.
Nor were the houses high enough to furnish any independent bulwark;
they were low, wooden dwellings, the tallest a bare two stories in
height, the majority only one story. But they were in good painting and
repair, and most of them had a homely gayety of geraniums or

bouvardias in the windows. The house on the corner was the tall house.
It occupied a larger yard than its neighbors; and there were lace
curtains tied with blue ribbons for the windows in the right hand front
room. The door of this house swung back with a crash, and a woman
darted out. She ran at the top of her speed to the little yellow house
farther down the street. Her blue calico gown clung about her stout
figure and fluttered behind her, revealing her blue woollen stockings
and felt slippers. Her gray head was bare. As she ran tears rolled down
her cheeks and she wrung her hands.
"Oh! Oh! Oh! Oh, lieber Herr Je!" One near would have heard her sob,
in too distracted agitation to heed the motorneer of the passing
street-car who stared after her at the risk of his car, or the tousled heads
behind a few curtains. She did not stop until she almost fell against the
door of the yellow house. Her frantic knocking was answered by a
young woman in a
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