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THE WALKING DELEGATE




[Illustration: THE WALKING DELEGATE]




  The
  Walking Delegate


  By

  Leroy Scott


  _With Frontispiece_


  New York
  Doubleday, Page & Company
  1905




  Copyright, 1905, by
  Doubleday, Page & Company
  Published May, 1905


_All rights reserved, including that of translation into foreign
languages, including the Scandinavian_




To My Wife




CONTENTS


CHAPTER                            PAGE

     I. ON THE ST. ETIENNE HOTEL      3

    II. THE WALKING DELEGATE      14

   III. THE RISE OF BUCK FOLEY      30

    IV. A COUNCIL OF WAR      9

     V. TOM SEEKS HELP FROM THE ENEMY      50

    VI. IN WHICH FOLEY PLAYS WITH TWO MICE      59

   VII. GETTING THE MEN IN LINE      72

  VIII. THE COWARD      85

    IX. RUTH ARNOLD      98

     X. LAST DAYS OF THE CAMPAIGN      111

    XI. IN FOLEY'S "OFFICE"      120

   XII. THE ELECTION      129

  XIII. THE DAY AFTER      145

   XIV. NEW COURAGE AND NEW PLANS      153

    XV. MR. BAXTER HAS A FEW CONFERENCES      166

   XVI. BLOWS      177

  XVII. THE ENTERTAINMENT COMMITTEE      187

 XVIII. THE STOLEN STRIKE      203

   XIX. FOLEY TASTES REVENGE     210

    XX. TOM HAS A CALLER      224

   XXI. WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN      236

  XXII. THE PROGRESS OF THE STRIKE      250

 XXIII. THE TRIUMPH OF BUSINESS SENSE      257

  XXIV. BUSINESS IS BUSINESS      267

   XXV. IN WHICH FOLEY BOWS TO DEFEAT      279

  XXVI. PETERSEN'S SIN      290

 XXVII. THE THOUSANDTH CHANCE      304

XXVIII. THE EXPOSURE      313

  XXIX. IN WHICH MR. BAXTER SHOWS HIMSELF A MAN OF RESOURCES      331

   XXX. THE LAST OF BUCK FOLEY      338

  XXXI. TOM'S LEVEE      348

 XXXII. THE THORN OF THE ROSE      364




LIST OF CHARACTERS


  BUCK FOLEY, a walking delegate.
  TOM KEATING, a foreman.
  MAGGIE KEATING, his wife.
  MR. BAXTER, President of Iron Employers' Ass'n.
  MRS. BAXTER.
  MR. DRISCOLL, a contractor.
  RUTH ARNOLD, his secretary.
  MR. BERMAN, junior partner of Mr. Driscoll.
  MR. MURPHY, a contractor.
  MR. BOBBS, a contractor.
  MR. ISAACS, a contractor.
  CONNELLY, Secretary of Iron Workers' Union.
  NELS PETERSEN, a "scab."
  ANNA PETERSEN, his wife.
  PIG IRON PETE, a workman
  JOHNSON, a workman.
  BARRY, a workman.
  MRS. BARRY.
  JAKE HENDERSON       }
  ARKANSAS NUMBER TWO  }      Members of
  KAFFIR BILL          }  "The Entertainment
  SMOKEY               }      Committee."
  HICKEY               }




THE WALKING DELEGATE




Chapter I

ON THE ST. ETIENNE HOTEL


The St. Etienne Hotel would some day be as bulky and as garishly
magnificent as four million dollars could make it. Now it was only a
steel framework rearing itself into the center of the overhead
grayness--a black pier supporting the grimy arch of heaven.

Up on its loosely-planked twenty-first story stood Mr. Driscoll,
watching his men at work. A raw February wind scraped slowly under the
dirty clouds, which soiled the whole sky, and with a leisurely content
thrust itself into his office-tendered flesh. He shivered, and at times,
to throw off the chill, he paced across the pine boards, carefully going
around the gaps his men were wont