BOOKS BY
BOOTH TARKINGTON
| ALICE ADAMS |
| BEASLEY’S CHRISTMAS PARTY |
| BEAUTY AND THE JACOBIN |
| CHERRY |
| CONQUEST OF CANAAN |
| GENTLE JULIA |
| HARLEQUIN AND COLUMBINE |
| HIS OWN PEOPLE |
| IN THE ARENA |
| MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE |
| PENROD |
| PENROD AND SAM |
| RAMSEY MILHOLLAND |
| SEVENTEEN |
| THE BEAUTIFUL LADY |
| THE FASCINATING STRANGER AND |
| OTHER STORIES |
| THE FLIRT |
| THE GENTLEMAN FROM INDIANA |
| THE GUEST OF QUESNAY |
| THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS |
| THE MAN FROM HOME |
| THE MIDLANDER |
| THE TURMOIL |
| THE TWO VANREVELS |
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AT
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TO
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The Midlander
CHAPTER I
PEOPLE used to say of the two Oliphant brothersthat Harlan Oliphant looked as if helived in the Oliphants’ house, but Dandidn’t. This was a poor sort of information to anyone who had never seen the house, but of course thesupposition was that everybody had seen it and wasfamiliar with its significance. It stood in a great,fine yard, in that row of great, fine yards at the upper